Integrating Knowledge Capture and Knowledge Reuse in the Engineering Undergraduate Curriculum

建议编号：0230698 PRINCIPAL调查员：Hale，RichardInn名称：堪萨斯大学研究中心创新：在工程学本科课程中集成知识获取和知识重用摘要工程问题解决一致地使用各种形式的模型(心理、物理、分析、计算)，并依赖于来自多个学科(制造、可支持性、成本、载荷、结构性能等)的专家输入。这样的建模涉及首先从实际物理系统映射到适当的抽象，该抽象可以被操纵以产生结果，然后这些结果被映射回物理系统以预测或描述其行为。工程设计生产力的一个严重障碍是缺乏信息技术(IT)来支持在比共享数据库更高的抽象级别上交换和重复使用知识。特别是，工程知识库包括用于分析复杂物理系统的模型和程序，但这些模型和程序是不可共享的。工程学科正在积极寻求一种人类可以查看、理解和维护的知识表示标准，以及计算机可以解释的标准。因此，需要具备基于知识的系统的技能和从不同的“专家”那里获取知识的实践的新兴工程师。堪萨斯大学航空航天工程系(Kuae)建议将最先进的基于知识的开发工具纳入课程，并通过提供适当的索引、检索和可视化机制来促进这些工具的共享使用。这些工具将使Kuae引入系统级设计方法的愿望正式化，并将用于细分特定学科的课程。在航空飞行器的设计和实施中使用这些工具将使学生接触到更能反映商业世界的设计项目，并将介绍整个商业企业知识集成的重要性。

PROPOSAL NO.: 0230698PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Hale, RichardINSTITUTION NAME: University of Kansas Center for Research IncTITLE: Integrating Knowledge Capture and Knowledge Reuse in the Engineering Undergraduate CurriculumAbstractEngineering problem solving consistently uses models in various forms (mental, physical,analytic, computational) and relies on expert inputs from multiple disciplines (manufacturing, supportability, cost, loads, structural performance, etc.). Such modeling involves first mapping from the actual physical system to a suitable abstraction that can be manipulated to yield results that are then mapped back on the physical system to predict or describe its behavior. A serious obstacle to productivity in engineering design is the lack of information technology (IT) to support exchange and reuse of knowledge at a higher level of abstraction than shared databases. In particular, the engineering knowledge base includes models and programs for analysis of complex physical systems, but these models and programs are not sharable. Engineering disciplines are actively pursuing a standard for knowledge representation that can be viewed, understood and maintained by humans and which can be interpreted by computers. As such, there is a need for emerging engineers with skills in knowledge-based systems and the practiceof capturing knowledge from disparate "experts." The Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of Kansas (KUAE) proposes to incorporate state-of-the-art knowledge-based development tools into the curriculum, and to facilitate shared use of these tools by providing suitable indexing, retrieval, and visualization mechanisms. Such tools will formalize the KUAE desire to introduce a system-level design approach, and will serve to decompartmentalize courses in specific disciplines. Exercising these tools in design and implementation of an aerospace vehicle will expose students to a design project more reflective of the commercial world, and will introduce the importance of knowledge integration across a commercial enterprise.