Model and Build: An Integrated Engineering, Mathematics, and Machining Laboratory

MCC的工程科学系有两个阶段的计划，为学生提供改进的建模和设计经验。在第一阶段，工程科学系将在工程电路和数学课程中更加充分地整合建模和设计。第二阶段将结合使用3D实体建模在我们的工程图形类以及设计和构建项目，这将涉及一个由工程科学和工具和加工学生组成的学生团队。实施这个计划的两个阶段需要增加14台计算机，数学和AutoCAD软件，以及后来的打印机到我们的工程科学实验室。该设备将于1998年夏季安装，并将于1998年秋季准备使用。第一阶段将于1998年秋季开始整合微积分3 （MTH 212）和入门电路（ENR 253）的课程。数学软件将用于电路（ENR 254）实验室模拟电路。数学和工程学院将密切合作，以便微积分中使用的示例与电路建模和分析相关。在1999年春季，微分方程（MTH 225）和电路（ENR 254）将采用类似的方法。1999年秋季，第二阶段将在工程制图课（ENR 153）中开始使用AutoCad三维实体建模。除了创建机械组件的计算机模型外，学生还将与MCC工具和机加工部门的学生合作完成设计和建造项目。

The Engineering Science Department at MCC has a two stage plan for providing students with improved modeling and design experiences. In the first stage, the Engineering Science department will more fully integrate modeling and design in both the engineering circuits and mathematics courses in the program. The second stage will incorporate the use of 3D solid modeling in our engineering graphics class along with a design and build project which will involve a student team consisting of both Engineering Science and Tooling and Machining students. Implementation of both stages of this plan requires the addition of 14 computers, Mathematical and AutoCAD software, and a later printer to our Engineering Science laboratory. This equipment would be installed in the summer of 1998 and would be ready for use in the fall of 1998. The first stage will begin with the integration of the curricula of Calculus 3 (MTH 212) with Introductory Circuits (ENR 253) in the fall of 1998. Mathematical software will be used in the Circuits (ENR 254) laboratory to model analog circuits. Math and Engineering faculty will work closely so that the examples used in Calculus are relevant to circuit modeling and analysis. During the Spring of 1999, a similar approach will be used with Differential Equations (MTH 225) and Circuits (ENR 254). In the fall of 1999, the second stage will begin with the use of 3D solid modeling with AutoCad in the engineering graphics class (ENR 153). In addition to creating computer models of mechanical assemblies, students will also work in teams with students from the MCC Tooling and Machining department to complete a design and build project.