CAREER: Understanding and Supporting the Acquisition of Manufacturing Automation System Integration Skills

这个项目的主要目标是：(1)了解自动化制造系统集成专业知识是如何发展的；(2)开发一个基于网络的系统--称为系统集成问题解决环境(SIPSE)--既可以用来监控系统集成技能的发展，也可以用来教授它们；(3)开发一种教学系统集成概念和技能的方法，可以作为开发系统集成和其他类似领域教育课程和材料的基础；以及(4)开发自动化制造系统集成本科课程的课程。拟议的工作将建立在现有认知技能获得研究的基础上，调查专家工程师如何发展自动化制造系统集成技能，以及如何帮助新手更有效地发展这些技能。该项目将通过以下方式整合研究和教育：(1)让研究生和本科生参与数据收集和分析、编程、界面设计和图形设计任务；(2)邀请制造自动化学生参与评估SIPSE；(3)在SIPSE中增加一个教学模块；(4)为制造自动化系统集成的新课程开发和评估教学大纲和课程材料；以及(5)展示研究成果并调查机会，使SIPSE在高中和非正规教育环境中可用。它将通过让少数族裔和/或位于农村地区的机构的学生和教员参与使用和评估拟议研究的结果，扩大代表不足群体的参与。它将通过互联网提供SIPSE供研究人员使用，从而加强制造自动化领域的研究基础设施。研究成果将在学术期刊和专业会议、网络上广泛传播，并通过向高中和儿童博物馆等非正式教育机构发表演讲的方式广泛传播。这一努力的直接受益者将包括自动化制造系统终端用户、系统集成商和自动化产品制造商。工程教育与工程中心分部(ENG/EEC)已同意共同资助该项目。

The principal goals of this project are to: (1) understand how automated manufacturing system integration expertise develops; (2) develop a web-based system - called the System Integration Problem-Solving Environment (SIPSE) - that can be used both to monitor the development of system integration skills and to teach them; (3) develop a pedagogy for teaching system integration concepts and skills that can be used as a basis for developing curricula and materials for education in system integration and other similar domains; and (4) develop a curriculum for a undergraduate-level course on Automated Manufacturing System Integration. The proposed effort will build upon existing cognitive skills acquisition research in investigating how expert engineers develop automated manufacturing system integration skills and how to help novices develop these skills more efficiently. The project will integrate research and education by (1) involving graduate and undergraduate students in data collection and analysis, programming, interface design, and graphics design tasks; (2) inviting manufacturing automation students to participate in evaluating SIPSE; (3) adding an instructional module to SIPSE; (4) developing and evaluating a syllabus and curriculum materials for a new course on manufacturing automation system integration; and (5) presenting research results and investigating opportunities to make SIPSE available in high school and informal education settings. It will broaden participation of underrepresented groups by involving students and faculty from minority and/or rurally located institutions in using and evaluating the results of the proposed research. It will enhance the research infrastructure in the area of manufacturing automation by making SIPSE available over the Internet for use by researchers. Research results will be broadly disseminated in academic journals and professional conferences, on the Web, and by making presentations to high schools and in informal education settings, such as children's museums. Direct beneficiaries of this effort will include automated manufacturing system end users, system integrators, and automation product manufacturers. The Division of Engineering Education & Centers (ENG/EEC) has agreed to co-fund this project.