Multimedia-based active tutors - a new approach to teaching design for manufacturing

摘要

This paper describes multimedia based manufacturing tutors currently under development at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. The purpose of these tutors to assist the user in better visualizing and understanding the relationship between part design and the ease or difficulty of creating the tooling needed to produce the part. Evaluation of these tutors by both freshman and junior engineering students is discussed as well. A finite element analysis tutor, also under development, is briefly described.