Jack Hong||George Toye||Larry J. Leifer · Stanford Center for Design Research||Stanford Center for Design Research||Stanford Center for Design ResearchApplications of WWW in the Education of Engineering Design Teams
September 29, 1995
ME210: Mechatronic Systems Design, is a graduate-level engineering
design class offered by Stanford's Department of Mechanical Engineering.
Every year, ME210 provides an environment for 14+ three-person
teams to tackle a wide range of industry sponsored projects,
each working with a $10,000 budget to deliver functional hardware
at year's end.
In Autumn 1994, ME210 took on the additional challenge of
being offered concurrently to both traditional on-campus students
and off-campus Honors Co-op students through Stanford's Instructional
Television Network(SITN, now known as the Stanford Center for
Professional Development, SCPD). In this distributed environment,
paper-based communications no longer reached the whole class
in a timely fashion, and team members no longer had the benefit
of working with partners side-by-side. To compensate, a suite
of Web-centered services were deployed, and ME210 was moved to
a completely Web-mediated classroom infrastructure.
We will discuss our experiences in the first year of web-mediated
distance learning and teamwork, and demonstrate key technologies
that have been enhanced for the class of 95-96.
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Jack Hong is a Ph.D. candidate in the Design Division of Mechanical
Engineering at Stanford University. He holds an M.S.in Product
Design Engineering from Stanford, a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering
(Honors) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Houston at University Park. His current research interests
are in collaborative design tools, interdisciplinary design team
dynamics and human-computer interaction.
George Toye, Ph.D. has a background in mechatronics and redundant
control systems for complex computer-based systems. He is currently
the associate director of the Stanford Center for Design Research,
and is centrally involved in the center's study of engineering
design activities, processes, and interactive learning. His current
research activities include the ARPA funded project ("SHARE")
to develop computer network based technology in support of collaborative
design and manufacturing activities via the Internet, and the
NSF's National Engineering Education Delivery System ("NEEDS")
project, in which courseware modules can be found and distributed
via the Internet.
Larry Leifer, Ph.D. is Professor of Mechanical Engineering
at Stanford, Director of the Stanford Center for Design Research,
and instructor of ME210. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree
in Mechanical Engineering (1962), a Master of Science degree
in Product Design (1963) and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering
(1969), all from Stanford University. He has published in the
areas of diagnostic electrophysiology, functional assessment
of voluntary movement, human operator information processing,
rehabilitation robotics, design team protocol analysis, design
knowledge capture and concurrent engineering.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact Jack Hong (hong@cdr.stanford.edu) or read more about
ME210 at <http://me210.stanford.edu/intro.html>
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