New Frontiers of Mechatronics Education for Mobility, Energy, and Production Engineering

移动、能源和生产工程机电一体化教育新领域

• 批准号: 1935633
• 负责人: Ching-Ming Chen
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 依托单位: Wayne State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-01 至 2021-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1935633&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: New; Frontiers; Mechatronics; Education; Mobility

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated engineers and technicians in production engineering. It will do so by supporting workshops on mechatronics education. Mechatronics is a multidisciplinary/ interdisciplinary science that integrates knowledge from electronics, mechanics, control theory, and computer science. An industrial robot is an example of a mechatronics system. Hybrid systems important to mechatronics include production systems, automotive subsystems such as anti-lock brakes, and everyday tools such as autofocus cameras, video, hard disks, and CD players. The field of mechatronics offers many employment opportunities for existing workforces that face automation-related job loss, as well as for future workers. The workshops will explore educational pathways into mechatronics careers, from K-12 through working professionals, including development of new mechatronics curricula and hands-on laboratories. In addition to defining education pathways, the workshops will explore new teaching methods using mechatronics technologies for mechatronics workforce development, including the use of virtual, augmented, and mixed reality approaches. The workshops will also explore workforce diversity and equity issues in the mechatronics production engineering field. Results of the workshops will be published on a project website for free download by any interested person or group. This report will include descriptions of the participants and insights resulting from the workshops.Two workshops will be held, one at Wayne State University in Detroit Michigan (focused on focusing on mechatronics applications in the ground mobility and alternative energy) and the other at California State University, Long Beach (focused on mechatronics applications in aerospace engineering). The workshops will include representatives from local industry and universities. Discussions will center on pedagogies, tools, assessment methods, technological progress in mechatronics, and societal impacts including workforce diversity. In the workshops, current challenges and future trends in mechatronics markets and technologies will be discussed by industry personnel. Researchers and university faculty will present recent research and the latest inventions. Engineering education faculty and K-12 teachers will contribute experiences and ideas for new teaching technologies such as design software, control hardware and software, and extended reality visualizations through virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality. Experts will also discuss the development and growth of a mechatronics workforce for production engineering, including how to develop a diverse workforce and provide equitable access to mechatronics education and careers. This project is funded by NSF's EHR Core Research: Production Engineering Education and Research (ECR: PEER) program, which seeks to improve the education of future and current professionals in production engineering. It also aims to study the effectiveness of the innovative educational strategies adopted by these projects.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目将有助于国家生产工程中受过良好教育的工程师和技术人员的需求。 它将通过支持机电一体化教育研讨会来做到这一点。 MechaTronics是一门多学科/跨学科科学，它整合了电子，力学，控制理论和计算机科学的知识。工业机器人是机电一体化系统的一个例子。对于机电一体化而言，混合系统包括生产系统，抗锁制动器等汽车子系统以及自动对焦摄像头，视频，硬盘和CD播放器等日常工具。 机电一体化领域为面临与自动化有关的失业以及未来工人的现有劳动力提供了许多就业机会。 这些研讨会将探索从K-12到工作专业人员的机电一体化职业的教育途径，包括开发新的机电一体化课程和动手实验室。 除了定义教育途径外，研讨会还将使用机电一体化技术进行机电货币学劳动力发展探索新的教学方法，包括使用虚拟，增强和混合现实方法。这些研讨会还将探索机电一体化生产工程领域中的劳动力多样性和平等问题。 研讨会的结果将在项目网站上发布，以免费下载任何感兴趣的人或小组。 该报告将包括对参与者的描述和由研讨会产生的见解。将在密歇根州底特律的韦恩州立大学举行一次讲习班（重点是专注于地面移动性和替代能源的机电一体化应用），而在加利福尼亚州立大学进行了备用机电学应用程序（重点介绍了Long Beach（重点介绍Mechatronics In in Mechatronics Inseropsace in Aeropsopsopsopsopsopsopsopsopsopsopsopsermosteresering in Aeropsospace inseremering，）。这些研讨会将包括当地工业和大学的代表。讨论将集中于教学，工具，评估方法，机电一体化技术进步以及包括劳动力多样性在内的社会影响。 在研讨会中，行业人员将讨论当前的机电一体化市场和技术的挑战和未来趋势。研究人员和大学教师将介绍最新的研究和最新发明。工程教育教师和K-12教师将为新教学技术，控制硬件和软件等新教学技术以及通过虚拟现实，增强现实和混合现实的扩展现实可视化贡献经验和想法。专家还将讨论生产工程机电一体化劳动力的发展和增长，包括如何发展多样化的劳动力并为机电一体化教育和职业提供公平的机会。该项目由NSF的EHR核心研究资助：生产工程教育与研究（ECR：PEER）计划，该计划旨在改善生产工程中未来和现有专业人员的教育。它还旨在研究这些项目采用的创新教育策略的有效性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来支持的。

项目成果

Workshop development for New frontier of mechatronics for mobility, energy, and production engineering

移动、能源和生产工程机电一体化新领域的研讨会开发

• DOI: 10.18260/1-2--35709
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: ASEE Annual Conference proceedings
• 作者: Chen, J. C.;Liao, G. Y.;Lo, R. C.;Shankar, P.
• 通讯作者: Shankar, P.