Rudas: Adaptive Virtual Higher Education Space for Engineering Modeling

Abstract:-. Things in engineering have dramatically changed. A long period of development of product related engineering methods from the manually prepared drawings to the integrated virtual spaces resulted advanced application of contemporary information technology. Engineers are moving into communities organized for product lifetime management (PLM) on the Internet. The authors made efforts to develop higher education for engineering into a level where virtual technology can be delivered as a life long learning of engineers engaged in product lifetime management. They developed approach, concept and initial methods as an implementation of Internet portal based computer modeling for group work of engineers in higher education. Virtual information technology is considered as a methodological background of a mixed on-line education, advanced distance education, and modeling assisted campus education. In their earlier, publications, the authors introduced several issues in model-based definition, description and management of student profile based courses. Teaching content of a virtual course is organized around six different aspects of engineering modeling as virtual technology, shape centered modeling, virtual manufacturing, virtual reality, group work of engineers, and CAD/CAM systems. In this paper, preliminaries of the reported work are followed by an outline of essential issues in course modeling as modeling environment for construction of classroom model, the proposed classroom model, and virtual laboratory. Next, adaptive course model is explained by initial conditions for definition of a course model, conflicts during definition of a course, and communication inside a course model. Finally, construction of a course model is introduced by essential construction entities and restrictions for construction