Faculty Development in Collaborative Design and Rapid Tooling and Manufacturing

新的设计技术人员需要在协同设计和快速模具和制造流程的经验。在这个项目中，来自社区大学的教师参与实践学习，从而提高了课程质量，改善了学生在家乡校园的学习。该项目为工程和设计技术学院提供全面的协同设计和快速模具制造专业发展。在2005年和2006年夏天，工程系教师参加了同时在代顿提供的暑期学院。OH和Ventura，CA在两条轨道上。基于网络的讨论组和传播活动的目的是支持教师，因为他们实施在研讨会上提出的课程材料。一个独特的特点是，代顿和文图拉研讨会同时举行，允许实时跨大陆的教师合作。学院可以通过电子邮件向辛克莱发送文件，以便在其快速成型设备的正常停机时间内生产零件。每年有40名工程技术教员（代顿20人，文图拉20人）参加这两个项目。俄亥俄州和加州的教师团队通过互联网作为工业设计团队合作设计零件，并使用快速原型技术制造零件。这种经验提供了在商业和工业中经常使用的协作设计和快速模具和制造过程的准确模拟。参与的教师在他们的课堂上使用的过程和模拟，以提高实验室的组成部分。 该项目从得不到充分服务的人口中招聘教师，并在有大量得不到充分服务的人口的机构任教。预计教师参与者将注入暑期学院期间开发的课程改进，为服务不足的学生提供尖端的学习机会。通过该项目创建的所有课程和实验室经验都张贴在项目网站上。

New design technicians need experience in Collaborative Design and Rapid Tooling and Manufacturing processes. In this project, faculty from community colleges engage in hands-on learning that is resulting in curriculum enhancements and improved student learning back on their home campuses. This project provides comprehensive professional development on collaborative Design and Rapid Tooling and Manufacturing for engineering and design technology faculty. During the summers of 2005 and 2006, engineering faculty members are participating in Summer Institutes offered concurrently in Dayton. OH and Ventura, CA in the two tracks. Web-based discussion groups and dissemination activities are designed to support faculty as they implement the curricular material presented in workshops. A unique feature is that the Dayton and Ventura workshops are held simultaneously permitting real-time cross-continental faculty collaboration. Faculty can e-mail files to Sinclair to produce parts during what would normally be downtime of its rapid prototyping equipment. Each year 40 engineering technology faculty members (20 in Dayton and 20 in Ventura) participate in each of the two tracks. Faculty teams in Ohio and California collaborate as industrial design teams via the Internet to design parts and use rapid prototyping technologies to manufacture the parts. This experience provides an accurate simulation of the Collaborative Design and Rapid Tooling and Manufacturing processes routinely used in business and industry. Participating faculty use the processes and simulations in their classrooms to enhance the laboratory components. The project recruits faculty who are from underserved populations and who teach at institutions with large numbers of underserved populations. Faculty participants are expected to infuse curriculum improvements developed during the Summer Institutes, providing underserved students with cutting-edge learning opportunities. All lessons and laboratory experiences created through the project are posted to the project web site.