Multimedia Based Tools for Integration of Technology, Analysis and Design in Materials Handling Education

该奖项向伦斯勒理工学院提供资金，以支持桑德莱什·赫拉古博士指导的名为“材料搬运工程教育中基于多媒体的技术、分析和设计集成工具”的研究-课程开发(CRCD)项目。该项目的目标是开发一个基于多媒体的材料搬运工程综合教学系统，该系统可以通过网络和光盘媒体以非常低的成本分发给美国的大学。该系统将由一个由技术内容和多媒体技术专家以及交流、学习、评价和认知心理学专家组成的多学科、多大学团队开发，其中将包含对这些系统的三大类分析模块。这些单元将：a)向学生介绍主要的物料搬运设备类别；b)说明每个类别中主要物料搬运设备的工业应用；以及c)通过一系列广泛的模型、算法、问题和解决方案来讲授解决问题的过程，这些模型、算法、问题和解决方案说明了定量工具和设计问题在解决技术选择和技术分析问题中的创造性应用。这将包括用于直接比较替代系统性能的工具，并用动画说明决策对系统性能的影响。拟议的系统将是第一个将现代材料处理技术与其应用的大量技术文献直接联系起来的系统。

This award provides funding to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, for the support of a Combined Research-Curriculum Development (CRCD) project entitled, "Multi-media Based Tools for Integration of Technology, Analysis and Design in Materials Handling Engineering Education," under the direction of Dr. Sunderesh Heragu. The project's goals are to develop a multi-media based system for integrative instruction in materials handling engineering which can be distributed at a very low cost to U.S. universities via the web and CD-ROM media. The system to be developed by a multi-disciplinary, multi-university team of technical content and multi-media technology experts, as well as communication, learning, evaluation and cognitive psychology experts, will contain modules on three major categories of analysis of these systems. These modules will: a) introduce students to major categories of materials handling equipment, b) illustrate industrial applications of a major material handling device in each category, and c) teach the problem solving process through an extensive series of models, algorithms, problems and solutions which illustrate the creative application of quantitative tools and design problems in solving technology selection and technology analysis problems. This will include tools for direct comparisons of the performance of alternative systems with an animated illustration of the effect of a decision on system performance. The proposed system will be the first to directly link modern materials handling technology with the vast technical literature to which it applies.