The ISTEC 2008 University - Industry Workshop
This workshop will bring together engineering educators and practitioners to:
- Share curriculum materials, best practices and innovative strategies to integrate industrial-strength simulation technology into the engineering curriculum.
- Discuss and learn how to design and implement modular curriculum materials that can be integrated into existing courses.
- Explore outstanding issues for further research on how simulation technology impacts teaching and learning.
In order to make simulation an integral part of the engineering educational experience, the workshop seeks to build a community of educators and practitioners collaborating on the deployment of simulation in the curriculum. This will help us move beyond the current situation where the deployment of simulation is primarily done by individual faculty in their respective courses without the widespread sharing and standardization of materials. A wiki-based website will be unveiled at the workshop to facilitate the creation of online learning modules, sharing of curriculum materials and collaboration. The workshop seeks to initiate evolution of this website into a comprehensive online learning system for engineering simulation.
This workshop will be of interest to all engineering faculty who use or would like to use simulation technology in their courses and projects. It will also be of interest to simulation experts in industry seeking to participate in the improvement of simulation education. There will be significant participation from major engineering software vendors who are leaders in simulation technology. The workshop is software neutral and not seeking to promote particular software packages.
Computational technologies to be considered include:
- Computer-aided design.
- Finite-element analysis.
- Computational fluid dynamics and heat transfer.
- Multi-body dynamics and control.
- General-purpose numerical analysis.