CAD education and treaning

Description

With a steadily increasing use of CAD systems within digital prototypes in product design and development, the capacity to create viable geometric models that can be used in various computer-aided engineering processes is becoming an indispensable necessity. However, with the current trend of commercial CAD systems increasingly to promote hybrid geometric modeling environments, this requirement poses a new challenge for education, as it requires a teaching strategy that goes beyond the sum of subject learning in surface modeling and solid modeling. The aim of the research is to investigate a novel teaching approach, which integrates negative knowledge as one crucial element in combination with traditional teaching methods to support competency development that reaches beyond the acquisition of basic modeling skills and domain knowledge.

Laboratories

Publications
  1. Otto, H.E., Mandorli, F., Parametric Feature-Based Solid Model Deficiency Identification to Support Learning Outcomes Assessment in CAD Education, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, V.18, I. 2, pp. 411-442, ISSN 1686-4360, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14733/cadaps.2021.411-442, 2021.
  2. Mandorli, F., Otto, H.E., Systematic Support of Learning from Errors and Negative Knowledge Development in MCAD Education: Empirical Analysis of Student Feedback, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, V.17, I. 2, pp. 384-406, ISSN 1686-4360, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14733/cadaps.2020.384-406, 2020.
  3. Otto, H.E., Mandorli, F., Surface Model Deficiency Identification to Support Learning Outcomes Assessment in CAD Education, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, V.16, I. 3, pp. 429-451, ISSN 1686-4360, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14733/cadaps.2019.429-451, 2019.
  4. Otto, H.E., Mandorli, F., Surface Model Deficiency Identification to Support Learning Outcomes Assessment in CAD Education, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, V.16, I. 3, pp. 429-451, ISSN 1686-4360, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14733/cadaps.2019.429-451, 2018.
  5. Mandorli, F., Otto, H.E., Innovation in MCAD education toward competency development using negative knowledge: From theoretical framework to practical implementation, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, V.15, I. 3, pp. 337-352, ISSN 1686-4360, doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/16864360.2017.13978852017, 2018.
  6. Otto, H.E., Mandorli, F., A framework for negative knowledge to support hybrid geometric modeling education for product engineering, Journal of Computational Design and Engineering, doi https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcde.2017.11.006, 2017.
  7. Mandorli, F., Otto, H.E., Integration of negative knowledge into MCAD education to support competency development for product design, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, V. 14, I. 3, pp. 269-283, ISSN 1686-4360, 2017. 
  8. Mandorli, F., Otto, H.E., Raffaeli, R., Explicit 3D functional dimensioning to support design intent representation and robust model alteration, Computer-Aided Design and Applications, V.13, I.1, pp. 108-123, ISSN 1686-4360, 2016. 
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