RFID-enabled real-time mechanical workshop training center

• Autores: M. L. Wang, Q. Y. Dai, Ray Y. Zhong, G.Q. Huang
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 28, no. Extra 5, 2012, págs. 1199-1212
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Mechanical workshop training is important in engineering education, which often faces challenges such as the management of alarge number of teaching resources, manual and paper-based data collection and the low efficiency and effectiveness of teachingoperations. This paper proposes an RFID-enabled Engineering Workshop Training Center (EWTC) by first integrating theTeaching by Examples and Learning by Doing (TELD) principle to enhance the teaching efficiency and effectiveness. ‘‘Teaching byexamples’’ allows the students to ‘‘see and then remember’’, while, ‘‘Learning by Doing’’ allows students to ‘‘do and thenunderstand’’. Secondly, EWTC uses RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) technology to convert various resources into smartteaching objects (STOs), which are connected by wireless networks in order to collect real-time information in an intelligentambience. Finally, it adopts the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) model to develop the system architecture to use the real-timeRFID data for facilitating different users’ operations and behaviors. A real-life case study illustrates how the RFID-enabled EWTCrationalizes a typical mechanical workshop training item in a university. By qualitative analysis, the daily operations of typical end-users, such as teaching supervisors, tutors and students are reengineered and improved into a pedagogical level that is real-time,optimal and specific. A set of statistics implies the upgrade of EWTC in quantitative analysis.