Evaluating the Use of Cyberinfrastructure in the Classroom to Enhance Product Dissection
Abstract
Recent cyberinfrastructure initiatives seek to create ubiquitous, comprehensive, interactive, and functionally complete digital environments that consist of people, data, information, tools, and instruments for research communities. With product dissection as our unifying theme, we are forging a cyberinfrastructure to support undergraduate design engineering education through CIBER-U: Cyber-Infrastructure- Based Engineering Repositories for Undergraduates. CIBERU pairs two of the nation's leading design repository developers with several active users and their students to realize a high-impact application of cyberinfrastructure in engineering undergraduate curricula involving freshmen through seniors. Specifically, CIBER-U combines product dissection activities at three universities with two digital design repositories, CAD modeling and animation, video, MediaWiki technology, multimedia, and undergraduate summer research experiences to enable cyberinfrastructure-based product dissection activities. Nearly 700 students have participated in the Phase I efforts of CIBER-U, which have focused primarily on generating, capturing, and storing data in two digital design repositories. Lessons learned from these efforts are presented from the students' perspectives as well as that of the faculty in both engineering and computer science. The implications for implementing CIBER-U on a national scale are discussed along with ongoing research.
Recommended Citation
M. Devendorf et al., "Evaluating the Use of Cyberinfrastructure in the Classroom to Enhance Product Dissection," Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference (2007, Las Vegas, NV), American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), Sep 2007.
Meeting Name
ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC2007 (2007: Sep. 4-7, Las Vegas, NV)
Department(s)
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
Cyber Infrastructure; Design Repository; Engineering Design; Product Dissection
Document Type
Article - Conference proceedings
Document Version
Citation
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 2007 American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), All rights reserved.
Publication Date
07 Sep 2007
