Competitive Assessment Laboratory

在当今瞬息万变和竞争日益激烈的市场中，制造商必须跟上竞争产品线中的技术进步和设计创新。竞争性评估一词是由制造商创造的，用来描述从道德上获取、检查、分析、检测和测试其他制造商的产品线的过程。在罗文大学的竞争力评估实验室，来自四个工程系的大一工程专业学生组成的多学科团队将在消费电器上执行上述各项任务。除了向学生介绍设计的科学和艺术，竞争力评估实验室将允许多学科团队的教师评估下，典型的工程专业学生进入他或她的学习课程不断发展的初始条件。 如本建议书所详述，竞争力评估实验室将包括5个消费电器测试站，配备基于PC的数据采集系统，能够测量热电偶和电压/电流信号。每个监测站还将配备机械测量设备和便携式材料测试设备。该实验室还将配备一个材料测试站，包括一个桌面机械测试系统和一个洛氏硬度测试仪。罗文大学竞争力评估实验室的目标如下：1）通过评估实践设计师的工作，向新生介绍设计的科学和艺术，为创新的四年设计课程提供发射台，2）介绍工程学生的多学科小组，以统一工程科学原理，如流体力学，固体力学，热力学，运输和电/磁使用消费电器作为试验台，3）使学生能够确定如何科学原理，材料属性，制造技术，成本，安全要求，环境考虑和知识产权影响产品的设计，4）让大一学生积极参与有意义的设计工作，通过仪器和评估消费电器的性能，5）为教师提供评估新生工程背景的手段，并通过与贸易工具的实践经验解决经验不足。

In today's quickly changing and increasingly competitive market place, it is imperative that manufacturers keep abreast of the technological advances and design innovations incorporated into competing product lines. The term competitive assessment has been coined by manufacturers to describe the process of ethically acquiring, inspecting, analyzing, instrumenting and testing the product lines of other manufacturers. In the Competitive Assessment Laboratory at Rowan University, multidisciplinary teams of freshman engineering students from each of the four engineering departments will perform each of the above tasks on a consumer appliance. In addition to introducing students to the science and art of design, the Competitive Assessment Laboratory will allow multidisciplinary teams of faculty to assess the constantly evolving initial conditions under which the typical engineering student enters his or her course of study. As described in detail in this proposal, the Competitive Assessment Laboratory will contain 5 consumer appliance test stations featuring PC-based data acquisition systems capable of measuring thermocouple and voltage/current signals. Each station will also be equipped with mechanical measurement equipment and portable materials testing equipment. The laboratory will also be outfitted with a materials testing station featuring a table top mechanical testing system and a Rockwell hardness tester. The objectives of the Competitive Assessment Laboratory at Rowan University are as follows: 1) Provide the launching pad for an innovative, four year design curriculum by introducing freshmen to the science and art of design by evaluating the work of practicing designers, 2) Introduce multidisciplinary groups of engineering students to unifying engineering science principles such as fluid mechanics, solid mechanics, thermodynamics, transport and electricity/magnetism using the consumer appliance as a test bed, 3) Enable students to determine how scientific principles, material propert ies, manufacturing techniques, cost, safety requirements, environmental considerations and intellectual property rights impact the design of a product, 4) Allow freshman students to actively participate in a meaningful design effort by instrumenting and evaluating the performance of a consumer appliance, 5) Provide faculty with the means to assess the engineering background of incoming students and address experiential deficiencies via hands-on experience with the tools of the trade.