A Practitioner-Educator Partnership for Teaching Engineering Design

Recently, the School of Civil Engineering and Environmental Science (CEES) at the University of Oklahoma instituted a “Programs Outcomes Assessment Plan” as mandated by the state regents for higher education. The assessment plan is designed to determine whether the existing CEES curriculum, teaching methods, and resources are achieving prescribed departmental goals. Within the plan, the senior level design course or capstone experience is to be used as one tool for assessing students. Development of the assessment plan coincided with a departmental decision to revamp and update the existing senior design course to more effectively convey the concept of design and to expose the students to professional practice. The restructured capstone course is now co-taught by a local industrial entity (i.e., consulting firm) and the CEES faculty. This industry driven capstone course has provided invaluable feedback regarding curricular content and capabilities of departmental graduates. The capstone course serves as a microcosm of the four year curriculum. Experiences and outputs from the course can be used to provide immediate assessment information regarding outcomes of the curriculum and at the same time provide insights into curricular changes necessary to improve the educational experience of our students.     

关于包装专业加强计算机教学的几点体会

阐述了包装工程专业加强计算机教学的目的、意义和要求，以及实施过程中的几点切身体会。     

Toward a Strategy for Teaching Engineering Design

Design is behavior. Therefore, it can best be understood by means of behavioral theory and must be taught in a way consistent with the theory of behavior modification. This simple fact appears to have been overlooked by most, if not all, engineering educators who teach design courses or write textbooks on engineering design. This article examines this thesis and its relationship to engineering heuristics by considering specific examples taken from current practice in engineering design education.     

论印刷工程专业的计算机课程教学

根据印刷工程专业的特点及今后发展趋势，提出了加强该专业计算机课程的教学，主要包括基础理论、基础语言、数据库以及常用软件和网络知识的教学。     

Engineering Design in Industry: Teaching Students and Faculty to Apply Engineering Science in Design

In a typical engineering curriculum students and faculty rarely have the opportunity to take a real problem, extract its essence, apply an analysis, and then make design decisions based on this analysis. This extractive link between fundamentals and design is particularly critical to a smooth transition from engineering study at the university to engineering practice in industry. Historically, universities have taken the responsibility for rigorous theoretical and technical training in subjects that include the basic sciences and fundamentals of engineering, while industry has been responsible for making engineering graduates contributors to specific tasks important to the company and its core competency. In this division of training, however, no one teaches students how to apply fundamental engineering principles to practical problems. To make matters worse, faculty often ignore engineering relevance of basic theory and the students then reject these fundamentals; in both cases engineering performance suffers. One solution to this missing bridge is being developed in the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) in the form of the “Engineering Design in Industry” program.     

A Teaching Workshop for Engineering Faculty

A quality engineering education is of utmost importance to undergraduate students seeking an engineering degree. Providing a quality education to these students is the responsibility of engineering faculty. The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Utah State University (USU), in cooperation with the officers of the student chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), has developed a series of six lessons focusing on teaching skills and faculty performance in the classroom. This series of lessons, known as the “Undergraduate Teaching Workshop”, is an effort to improve the teaching of the department faculty, and thereby the undergraduate education of its students. The lessons that make up this workshop range from student concerns to the use of learning resources and equipment. This paper discusses the workshop format and the experience we had with the workshop as it was conducted within our department.     

Probability and Random Processes for Electrical Engineering

This article considers deterministic computer experiments with real-valued tuning parameters which determine the accuracy of the numerical algorithm. A prominent example is finite-element analysis with its mesh density as the tuning parameter. The aim of this work is to integrate computer outputs with different tuning parameters. Novel nonstationary Gaussian process models are proposed to establish a framework consistent with the results in numerical analysis. Numerical studies show the advantages of the proposed method over existing methods. The methodology is illustrated with a problem in casting simulation. Supplementary material for this article is available online.     

计算机工程制图课程教学模式试探

目前工程制图课程体系改革的研究,一个重要的课题是如何将计算机绘图课程与工程制图课程相的结合的问题,也就量如何建立新的课程体系－－计算机工程制图课程的问题。我校出版《计算机工程制图》教材,为改革研究创造了一个有利的条件,但要达到预期的目标,必须在教学模式（方式）方面有较大的改革,本文讨论了有关教学模式的改革。     

工程总承包中建筑机电系统的设计深化

依照国际惯例,实行建筑机电系统设计深化与施工为一体的工程总承包机制,要求机电系统施工单位对招标图纸进行再设计,绘制成施工图纸.文章对设计深化工作的实施提出了措施,成立了机构,完成了设计深化工作,并在工程实践中得到印证,取得预期的效果.     

Engineering Design Thinking,Teaching, and Learning

This paper is based on the premises that the purpose of engineering education is to graduate engineers who can design, and that design thinking is complex. The paper begins by briefly reviewing the history and role of design in the engineering curriculum. Several dimensions of design thinking are then detailed, explaining why design is hard to learn and harder still to teach, and outlining the research available on how well design thinking skills are learned. The currently most‐favored pedagogical model for teaching design, project‐based learning (PBL), is explored next, along with available assessment data on its success. Two contexts for PBL are emphasized: first‐year cornerstone courses and globally dispersed PBL courses. Finally, the paper lists some of the open research questions that must be answered to identify the best pedagogical practices of improving design learning, after which it closes by making recommendations for research aimed at enhancing design learning.     

工业设计专业的工程制图教学模式探索

工程制图与艺术类基础课有相通的客观基础,建立在这个基础上的适合工业设计专业的工程制图教学模式,以艺术设计的科学表达为核心,立足工程制图学科的基本要求,结合工业设计专业特点,着重培养立体的构形能力以及用科学的方法表达形体的能力;鼓励学生构造既富有创意又有良好工程性的实体;加强读图能力和计算机三维构型能力的训练。     

基于人机工程学学生电脑桌设计

通过对中小学生电脑桌使用过程中存在问题的分析,根据学生的生理、心理特点,提出基于人机工程学的设计方法.分别对桌面高度、键盘和鼠标高度,电脑桌材料与色彩设计等方面进行人性化研究,使其更安全、更舒适、更有效、更益于中小学生健康成长.     

Educating Electrical and Computer Engineers for the Global Renaissance

Integrated circuit technology is causing rapid change in governments and industry. Never before has so much information been available so quickly and easily. Globally governments and industries are in a period of rebirth-a global renaissance. More than ever before engineers must be prepared for a period of rapid change. More and more powerful and complex hardware and software will be embedded in our systems. Electrical and computer engineers are developing these powerful technologies, and they must be prepared and encouraged to assume more leadership in industry, government, and the university.     

《工程制图》电子教案的设计与开发

提出了以AutoCAD为平台开发电子教案的方法，利用AutoCAD绘图软件强大的绘图和编辑功能以及AutoLSP语言，通过界面设计，各种自定义函数的定义及大量绘图程序的编写和素材库的建立，使所开发的电子教案图文并茂，操作简单，交互功能强，是一个完全开放的授课平台。该电子教案在教学中得到广泛的运用，并收到了良好的教学效果。     

A Complete Multimode Equivalent-Circuit Theory for Electrical Design

This work presents a complete equivalent-circuit theory for lossy multimode transmission lines. Its voltages and currents are based on general linear combinations of standard normalized modal voltages and currents. The theory includes new expressions for transmission line impedance matrices, symmetry and lossless conditions, source representations, and the thermal noise of passive multiports.     

A Web-Based Instructional Module for Teaching Middle School Students Engineering Design with Simple Machines*

The current work describes an instructional module that emphasizes integrative design using six simple machines: the lever, the wheel and axle, the pulley, the inclined plane, the screw, and the gear. The emphasis of this module is to have students investigate the underlying scientific and mathematical properties of the “machines,” and then integrate this knowledge to design creative solutions to problems. This simple machines module makes use of an original web-based multimedia learning environment as well as off-line, hands-on building activities with the LEGO^TM Technic I set. The current instructional module was used in a pilot study in an Introduction to Engineering class, and we include preliminary results from this study.     

面向现代工程中两种设计方法的工程制图教学改革

阐述了现代工程中并存的两种设计方法,即以二维为主、三维为辅的设计方法和数字化的三维设计方法。结合目前人才市场的需求,提出了面向两种设计方法的工程制图教学改革的思路,叙述了具体的改革方案。在二维教学的基础上,突出三维设计思想,形成了画法几何、计算机绘图、几何造型和机械制图有机结合的现代工程制图教学体系,进行了初步的教学实践,取得了良好的教学效果。     

家用小型漏电保护开关电性能试验自动操作装置的设计与应用

随着社会的发展，家用小型漏电保护开关应用越来越多，它关系到人身和设备的操作安全，因此，对它进行性能检测显得相当重要。文章对漏电保护开关的工作原理和电性能试验的标准要求进行研究，设计并实现了一套基于PLC的小型漏电断路器机械和电寿命试验自动操作装置，它具有三个工位同时运行的能力，操作简单、功能完善、运行稳定可靠等特点，实现自动操作以替代人工操作，大大节省了人力成本，极大提高了小型漏电断路器的机械和电寿命性能试验的检测效率，使检测技术更加科学、公正。