Curriculum Integration Through The Virtual Enterprise

工程--其他(59)在过去的十年里，即将毕业的工程师所面临的环境和期望发生了巨大的变化。除了传统的工程基础知识外，毕业工程师应该在竞争激烈的环境中立即做出贡献，拥有系统工程技能、信息技术技能和软技能。工程教育能否培养出满足这些市场需求的毕业生，将决定它在竞争日益激烈的技术教育市场中的突出地位和生存能力，并直接影响我们作为一个国家的长期影响力。这一概念验证项目正在解决系统工程和信息技术(SE/IT)两个领域对工程能力日益增长和突出的需求。该项目专注于通过虚拟企业整合的工程课程的部分设计、实施和评估。虚拟企业是利用信息技术进行集成，生产实际产品的全规模制造供应链。部门实验室被组织为业务部门。虚拟企业由机构提供支持，并提供资金和购买所需的硬件。该项目将这个虚拟企业作为发展系统工程、信息技术和工程专业学生软技能的一种实用和一致的手段。拟议项目的主要成果将是两个模块：一个是制造流程模块，另一个是制造执行系统模块。这种方法的好处包括扩大工程教育，以吸引更多的人，包括在工程学中代表严重不足的少数群体。

Engineering - Other (59) The environment and expectations facing graduating engineers have changed dramatically in the past decade. Graduate engineers are expected to contribute immediately in competitive environments with system engineering skills, information technology skills, and soft skills in addition to traditional engineering fundamentals. The ability of engineering education to produce graduates meeting these market demands will dictate its prominence and viability in the increasingly competitive technical education market, as well as directly impact our long term influence as a nation. This proof-of-concept project is addressing the growing and preeminent need for engineering capability in two areas: Systems Engineering and Information Technology (SE/IT). The project is focused on the design, implementation, and evaluation of part of an engineering curriculum integrated through a virtual enterprise. The virtual enterprise is a full scale manufacturing supply chain, integrated using information technology, and producing actual product. Departmental laboratories are organized as business departments. The virtualenterprise is supported by the institution with required hardware funded and purchased. The project uses this virtual enterprise as a practical and consistent means of developing systems engineering, information technology, and soft skills in engineering students. The primary outcome of the proposed project will be two modules: one in manufacturing processes and one in manufacturing execution systems. Benefits to this approach include the broadening of engineering education to appeal to a larger population, including minorities that are severely underrepresented in engineering.