A Web-based Interactive Teaching Package in Manufacturing Engineering

1 S K Ong, National University of Singapore, Mechanical Engineering Department, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 2 M A Mannan, National University of Singapore, Mechanical Engineering Department, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore 119260 Abstract — Increasing demand for a greater reach out from lecturers to students has resulted in the development of webbased multi-media packages that serve to aid the lecturers as teaching tools. This paper presents a web-based interactive teaching package that provides a comprehensive and conducive yet dynamic and interactive environment for a module on automated machine tools in the Manufacturing Division at the National University of Singapore. The use of Internet technologies in this teaching tool makes it able to conjure visualisations that cannot be achieved using traditional teaching materials such as transparencies. This is especially useful in the teaching automated machine tools, which deals primarily with the numerical control (NC) of the motions of automated machine tools. This teaching package provides web-based simulations and animations to enhance students’ understanding. These simulations are suitably placed in the package to generate interactions. Customised question types were also designed and implemented with a tutorial monitoring application.