First-Year Computer-Aided Engineering and Outreach Using Agent-Monitored, Collaborative Tutorials

工程机械——（56）工程专业的大一学生通常很难对机械工程师的专业角色进行概念化，也很难学习对掌握机械工程课程至关重要的基本概念。本项目为机械工程本科新生课程整合计算机辅助设计、建模和制造技能，创建并评估可免费获得的、由代理监控的基于互联网聊天的课程材料。这些教程允许学生浏览复杂的软件界面，概念化机械工程师的工作，并通过教程代理和学生群体之间的动态对话学习基本概念。另外，将开发基于聊天的教程，作为一种独特、有效的推广工具，让中学生对工程和其他技术专业产生兴趣。这些项目任务的结构是我们如何教授工程的长期转型变化的基础。

Engineering Mechanical - (56)Often it is difficult for freshman engineering students to conceptualize the professional roles of mechanical engineers and learn fundamental concepts vital to mastery of the mechanical engineering curriculum. This project creates and assesses freely-available, agent-monitored internet chat-based course materials for integrating computer-aided design, modeling, and manufacturing skills within a freshman mechanical engineering undergraduate course. These tutorials allow students to navigate complicated software interfaces, conceptualize what mechanical engineers do, and learn fundamental concepts through dynamic dialogues between tutorial agents and student groups. Additional chat-based tutorials will be developed as a unique, efficient outreach tool, allowing middle school students to become excited about engineering and other technical professions. These project tasks are structured to be the basis for long-term transformational changes in how we teach engineering.