Enhancement of Digital, Control, and Microelectronics Courses for a New Manufacturing Engineering Program

工程-其他（59）2000年秋，西南交通大学理工系获授权开设了首个校内工程专业，该课程可获得制造工程学士学位。目前的数字电子、控制和半导体制造课程适合技术课程，但需要大量升级和增强以支持新的工程课程。这项提案的目的是提供硬件和软件，在几门课程中实施一些新的教育举措，这些举措将支持这个新项目。这些举措正在适应德克萨斯农工大学和弗吉尼亚理工学院（VPI）等机构的想法，以开发适合西南理工大学环境的课程，这些课程主要来自德克萨斯州中部的农村、少数民族和女性人口。改进的课程包括数字电子学、控制系统和仪器仪表、微电子制造（两个学期）。技术课程中常见的动手教学方法的优势正在被应用于开发适合现代制造工程师的实验密集型课程模块。这种动手应用的工程教育方法是为了迎合所有学生的学习风格。通过教师发展和实施这些变化所获得的经验有助于在坚实的基础上建立制造工程项目，增加该地区急需的熟练工程人才。

Engineering - Other (59)In Fall 2000, the Department of Technology at SWTSU was authorized to begin the first engineering program on campus, a curriculum leading to a B. S. in Manufacturing Engineering. Present courses in digital electronics, controls, and semiconductor manufacturing are suitable for a technology curriculum but need substantial upgrading and enhancement to support the new engineering program. The objective of this proposal is to provide hardware and software to implement a number of new educational initiatives in several courses which are going to support this new program. These initiatives are adapting ideas from institutions such as Texas A&M and Virginia Polytechnic Institute (VPI) to develop a curriculum suited to SWTSU environment, which draws heavily from rural, minority and female population pools in Central Texas.The courses targeted for improvement are in Digital Electronics, Control Systems and Instrumentation, and Microelectronics Manufacturing (a two-semester sequence). The strengths of the hands-on teaching approach that is common in technology programs is being applied to develop laboratory-intensive course modules suitable for modern manufacturing engineers. Such a hands-on applications approach to engineering education is intended to cater to the learning styles of all students. The experience gained through faculty development and implementation of these changes helps to establish the manufacturing engineering program on a firm foundation, adding to the pool of skilled engineering personnel which are badly needed in this region.