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Rose, Mary Annette; Hunt, Brian – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2012
Natural catastrophes and engineering failures provide timely, motivating, and conceptually rich backdrops for learning. Engineering educators have long embraced case studies of engineering failures as a sound pedagogical strategy for meeting several learning standards, such as "design within realistic constraints", and teaching failure…
Descriptors: Engineering, Failure, Case Studies, Natural Disasters
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Smith, S. C.; Al-Assadi, W. K.; Di, J. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2010
As demand increases for circuits with higher performance, higher complexity, and decreased feature size, asynchronous (clockless) paradigms will become more widely used in the semiconductor industry, as evidenced by the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors' (ITRS) prediction of a likely shift from synchronous to asynchronous design…
Descriptors: Computer System Design, Engineering Education, Curriculum Development, Integrated Curriculum
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Bohemia, Erik; Ghassan, Aysar – American Journal of Distance Education, 2012
This article explores project-based cross-cultural and cross-institutional learning. Using Web 2.0 technologies, this project involved more than 240 students and eighteen academic staff from seven international universities. The focus of this article relates to a project-based learning activity named "The Gift". At each institution the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Student Projects, Distance Education, Active Learning
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Hartman, Nathan W.; Miller, Craig L. – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2006
This paper outlines past and present issues related to product data management (PDM) technologies and their implementation within organization. Included are the results from interviews with representatives from ten companies regarding their implementation processes related to PDM and PLM technologies. Results from these interviews are detailed in…
Descriptors: Industry, Corporations, Computer Assisted Design, Management Systems
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Seth, Abhishek; Smith, Shana S.-F. – Journal of Technology Studies, 2004
Virtual reality (VR), as an emerging visualization technology, has introduced an unprecedented communication method for collaborative design. VR refers to an immersive, interactive, multisensory, viewer-centered, 3D computer-generated environment and the combination of technologies required to build such an environment. This article introduces the…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Computer Assisted Design, Computers, Cooperation
Suddath, John F. – Vocational Education Journal, 1994
Describes how an industrial technology teacher teamed with employers and vendors of computer-aided design and manufacturing equipment to set curriculum, create purchasing plans, and get some bargains in the process. (Author)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Computer Assisted Manufacturing, Industry, School Business Relationship
Abramson, Rudy – Appalachia, 1995
Hagerstown Junior College's advanced technology program enables entrepreneurs to take an idea from computer-assisted design and manufacture, through prototype development and test-marketing, to full-scale production. An interactive video facility and the financial expertise of economic development agencies combine with the technology center to…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Design, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, Industry