Foreign Experience in Training Future Engineering Educators for Modeling Technological Processes

Mentoring future dental educators through an apprentice teaching experience.

To address concerns about the growing shortage of dental educators, the UCLA School of Dentistry initiated an elective course to introduce fourth-year students to issues in academic dentistry and to provide an apprentice teaching experience. Participants in the elective (referred to as student teachers) developed a microcourse entitled "Welcome to Dental Anatomy," presented to incoming first-ye...

A Formalism for Modeling Engineering Design Processes

ABSTRACT This paper presents a mathematical and graphical formalism for modeling computational engineering design processes, particularly to enhance variant product design in industries. The proposed modeling formalism provides a methodology for transforming a textual problem statement into a mathematical, parametric model. The explicit representation of the designer’s solution strategy is also...

Topological structures for modeling engineering design processes

In this paper, a mathematical framework for describing a variety of complex and practical design processes is developed. We demonstrate that our model has the desirable quality of representing several, seemingly distinct, approaches as instances of the same framework. In addition, General Design Theory is shown to be a special case of the proposed framework. Using simple examples throughout the...

Membrane Engineering: Future Perspectives

Modeling Actions in Dynamic Engineering Design Processes

The paper presents the approach for modeling actions in the dynamic processes of engineering design in Microelectronics and Integrated Circuits domain. It elaborates the formal framework for representing processes, the states of these processes and process environments, the actions being the constituents of the processes. Presented framework is implemented as the part of PSI Suite of Ontologies...