Fusing Rapid Manufacturing with 3D-Virtual Facility and Cyber Tutor System into Engineering Education to Cultivate Technical Success

该项目正在重新设计和开发一套与基于网络的快速制造(CBRM)相关的课程，涵盖快速反应、添加和先进制造等主题，并建立一个基于网络的快速制造实验室，以虚拟设施服务于学术工程项目，并支持多学科教育活动的发展。项目的目标包括：1)将快速制造和技术的应用研究主题融入课堂和实验课程，让学生积极参与基于网络的课程；2)应用虚拟现实、3D图像和快速制造生产系统的最新技术，以改善学习环境；以及3)通过网络课程和实验室招收高中生，特别是少数族裔和女性，通过在早期阶段激发他们对科学和工程的兴趣，提高他们对科学和工程的认识和参与。该计划通过开发采用混合教学方法的CBRM课程，并通过评估其对学生学习的效果，来加强本科生在先进制造技术方面的工程教育。虚拟设施的发展对于解决制造资源匮乏的问题具有巨大的潜力，特别是在偏远地区。该项目帮助培养准备充分的学生，在自动化、生产和快速制造技术领域拥有高科技技能，并可作为基于网络的制造教学的全国样板。

The project is redesigning and developing a set of Cyber Based Rapid Manufacturing (CBRM) related courses covering the topics of quick response, additive and advanced manufacturing, and establishing a Cyber Based Rapid Manufacturing Lab with virtual facilities to serve academic engineering programs and to support the development of multidisciplinary educational activities. The project goals include: 1) incorporate applied research themes in rapid manufacturing and technology into lecture and laboratory classes to engage students as active participants in web based courses; 2) Implement the most up-to-date technologies in virtual reality, 3D image and rapid manufacturing production systems to improve the learning environment; and 3) recruit high school students, especially minority and women, through web-accessible courses and laboratories, to increase their awareness and participation in science and engineering by stimulating their interest from early stages.The project enhances undergraduate engineering education in advanced manufacturing technologies by developing a CBRM curriculum with hybrid instructional approach and by appraising its effectiveness on student learning. The development of virtual facilities has great potential to resolve the issue of lacking manufacturing resources, particularly in remote areas. The program helps to produce well-prepared students with high-tech skills in the areas of automation, production and rapid manufacturing technologies and can serve as a national model for teaching network-based manufacturing.