CI-Team: Collaborative Research: Cyber-Infrastructure-Based Engineering Repositories for Undergraduates (CIBER-U)

该CI团队将展示如何通过开发CIBER-U（基于网络基础设施的本科生工程知识库），使用数字设计知识库来增强工程本科课程的教学和学习。 特别是，将扩大消费品和工业产品计算机辅助设计（CAD）数据的国家设计库，以加强大一，大二，大三和大四工程设计课程的教学和学习，包括访问，存储，搜索和重用CAD模型和数据的相关问题。 该项目将在合作机构的七个本科工程设计课程中实施，这些合作机构包括宾夕法尼亚州立大学、密苏里大学-罗拉分校、布法罗大学和德雷克塞尔大学。 作为该项目的一部分，还将评估将通过CIBER-U与国家设计库互动的本科生的教育经验，学习和实践知识的影响。 这项研究的结果将导致一个新的，多所大学的教育经验，是互利的。 具体而言，国家设计知识库将经常被填充，更新和投入使用，同时帮助推进系统和协调的方法来访问，存储，搜索和重用CAD模型和数据。 该研究将两个设计库开发人员与几个活跃的用户及其学生配对，以实现先进的网络基础设施在联合工程教育中的高影响力应用。 该提案中所代表的本科工程课程的多样性和优势将为新一代工程师做好准备，以开发，利用和促进数字设计知识库的使用，以支持产品设计。 这些学生将接触到的工具和技术是那些将塑造网络基础设施的增长，目前在技术密集型行业，如汽车和航空航天公司的首选代表。 在两年内，1700多名本科生将参加CIBER-U，帮助他们准备进入劳动力市场，更有效地了解在分布式，技术为媒介的环境中工作。 该团队还将通过正在进行的暑期高中外展活动，吸引200多名高中生参加CIBER-U。

This CI-Team will demonstrate how digital design repositories can be used to enhance instruction and learning in engineering undergraduate curricula through the development of CIBER-U: Cyber-Infrastructure-Based Engineering Repositories for Undergraduates. In particular, the National Design Repository of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) data for consumer and industrial products will be extended to enhance instruction and learning in freshmen-, sophomore-, junior-, and senior-level engineering design courses, including related issues with respect to accessing, storing, searching, and reusing CAD models and data. The project will be implemented in seven undergraduate engineering design courses at the partner institutions, which include the Pennsylvania State University, the University of Missouri-Rolla, the University at Buffalo, and Drexel University. The impact on the educational experience, learning, and practical knowledge of the undergraduate students who will interact with the National Design Repository through the resulting CIBER-U will also be assessed as part of the project. The results of this research will lead to a novel, multi-university educational experience that is mutually beneficial. Specifically, the National Design Repository will be frequently populated, updated, and put to use while simultaneously helping advance systematic and coordinated methods to access, store, search, and reuse CAD models and data. The research pairs two design repository developers with several active users and their students to realize a high-impact application of advanced cyber-infrastructure for allied engineering education. The diversity and strength of the undergraduate engineering programs represented in the proposal will prepare a new generation of engineers to develop, exploit, and promote the use of digital design repositories to support product design. These students will be exposed to tools and technologies that are representative of those that will shape the growth of the cyber-infrastructure and are currently preferred by companies in technology-intensive industries such as automotive and aerospace. In two years, 1700+ undergraduate students will participate in CIBER-U, helping to prepare them to enter the workforce with a more effective understanding of working in a distributed, technology-mediated environment. The team will also engage 200+ high school students in CIBER-U through ongoing summer high school outreach activities.