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Cyber-Infrastructure for Supporting K-12 Engineering Education through Robotics

Cyber-Infrastructure for Supporting K-12 Engineering Education through Robotics. Department of Computer Science Drexel University William Regli (PI). Project Objectives. Develop a multi-disciplinary approach to Engineering Informatics education

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Cyber-Infrastructure for Supporting K-12 Engineering Education through Robotics

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  1. Cyber-Infrastructure for Supporting K-12 Engineering Education through Robotics Department of Computer ScienceDrexel UniversityWilliam Regli (PI)

  2. Project Objectives • Develop a multi-disciplinary approach to Engineering Informatics education • Design curricular materials around the theme of bio-inspired and snake-inspired robots • Make materials accessible to undergraduates and high-school students • Create cyber-tools for design/analysis of bio-inspired robots • Create and populate a repository (i.e. cyber-infrastructure) with information on bio-inspired robot design and dozens of template designs • Including full engineering models (CAD, Simulation, kinematics, dynamics, etc

  3. CI-TEAM: Creation and Use of Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models NSF CISE/SCI-0537370 • Lead Institution: Drexel University • William Regli (CS, PI), Michael Piasecki (CivE) • Engineering design, ontologies, knowledge rep • University of Maryland @ College Park • SK Gupta (MechE) • Bio-inspired design, robotics, manufacturing • University of North Carolina @ Chapel Hill • Ming Lin and Dinesh Manocha (CS) • Physics-based modeling, 3D graphics • University of Wisconsin @ Madison • Nicola Ferrier, Vadim Shapiro, Krishnan Suresh (MechE) • Engineering design, kinematics/dynamics, geometric representations

  4. Project Activities • Team-taught multiple bio-robotics related classes across several institutions • Students design, build, model and simulate full bio-robots or bio-inspired mechanisms • Students learn multi-disciplinary modeling • CAD/CAM (i.e. Pro/E, CATIA etc), Simulation (i.e. ADAMS, ODE, etc), Information Modeling (i.e. OWL, UML, etc) • Result: Multi-disciplinary thinking about the design, fabrication, assembly, simulation and programming of bio-inspired robotic systems

  5. Current “Lesson Learned” • Bio-robotic domain is a great motivator • Students self-taught themselves basic CAD and tools like ADAMS in 2-3 weeks • One has to be open to novel educational techniques • “Cheating” was encouraged, creativity was stress in the integration of ideas and their transformation into new ideas • Students integrated ideas from many previously unconnected academic areas • Physics, graphics, AI all meet biology and mechanical engineering

  6. Expected Outcomes • Runs thru 2009 • Production of dozens of models of bio-inspired robots • Complete robots, robot sub-mechanisms • Simulation models, physics models • Academic tools, commercial (ADAMS), etc • Documented on project wikihttp://gicl.cs.drexel.edu

  7. Q&A For more information: http://gicl.cs.drexel.edu/wiki/ Sponsored by the National Science Foundation Cyber-Infrastructure TEAMs Grants SCI-0537125 & OCI-0636273, CIBER-UGrant SCI-0537370 & OCI-0636235, Multi-Disciplinary Engineering Models With additional support from….

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