Schaefer, D., & Thames, J. L., & Wellman, R. D., & Wu, D., & Yim, S., & Rosen, D. W. (2012, June), Distributed Collaborative Design and Manufacture in the Cloud - Motivation, Infrastructure, and Education  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21230

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  Schaefer, D., \& Thames, J. L., \& Wellman, R. D., \& Wu, D., \& Yim, S., \& Rosen, D. W. (2012, June), \emph{Distributed Collaborative Design and Manufacture in the Cloud - Motivation, Infrastructure, and Education}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21230

Dirk Schaefer, J. Lane Thames, Robert Donald Wellman Jr., Dazhong Wu, Sungshik Yim, and David W. Rosen.  "Distributed Collaborative Design and Manufacture in the Cloud - Motivation, Infrastructure, and Education".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21230 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_21230}
  Dirk Schaefer, J. Lane Thames, Robert Donald Wellman Jr., Dazhong Wu, Sungshik Yim, and David W. Rosen.
  "Distributed Collaborative Design and Manufacture in the Cloud - Motivation, Infrastructure, and Education".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21230 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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AB  -  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition – San Antonio, TX – June 10-13, 2012   Abstract submitted on 9.16.2011             Distributed Collaborative Design and Manufacture in the          Cloud—Motivation, Infrastructure, Pedagogy, and ApplicationsAbstractCloud Computing is a highly topical Information Technology (IT) paradigm that is anticipated tosignificantly impact the way business will be conducted in the future. In simple terms, cloudcomputing is concerned with delivering computing as a service rather than a product, wherebyshared resources, software and information are provided to computers and other devices as autility over a network. Currently, the three most prominent cloud computing application areasare software as a service, platform as a service, and infrastructure as a service. Most recently,cloud computing has made its advent to the domain of computer-aided product development. Itis being considered as a new model to aid future distributed design and manufacture processesthat seamlessly integrate both virtual resources, such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems,as well as physical resources, such as, for example, additive manufacturing machines.In Section 1 of this paper, we provide a brief overview of the cloud computing paradigm and itsmain application fields. In Section 2, we specifically address the ramifications that cloudcomputing may have on the field of distributed design and manufacture. This includes thesymbiosis and integration of virtual and physical resources over the Internet to aid futuredistributed computer-aided product development processes.In Section 3, we propose a cloud-based design and manufacture infrastructure that emerged fromour previous research on virtual and remote laboratories. This is followed by Section 4, in whichwe present an overview of a prototype implementation of our architecture and the way it wasused to facilitate the integration and operation of a Computer-Aided Design system, a 3D-printer,and a CNC micro mill through an Internet portal.In Section 5, we tie the paradigm of Cloud Computing to the field of Engineering Education.After discussing its potential ramifications for the engineering education sector in general,ranging from traditional college education to corporate professional settings, we elaborate onhow cloud computing may be utilized to specifically incorporate distributed design andmanufacture activities into the engineering curriculum. In addition, we report on how the cloud-based design and manufacture architecture introduced in Section 3 and the prototypeimplementations discussed in Section 4 will be embedded in a distance learning graduate levelengineering design course in spring 2012. We focus on the technical implementation aspects aswell as the pedagogical opportunities and challenges associated with these types of educationactivities.In Section 6, we summarize our experiences and lessons learned from this endeavor and drawconclusions. We present a roadmap for future research and education opportunities in the contextof cloud-based design and manufacture education. Moreover, we provide a brief overview ofhow the presented architecture will be leveraged and built upon in a related large project underDARPA’s Adaptive Vehicle Make program, in which we investigate how cloud computing maybe utilized to expose high school students, from up to 1,000 schools, to state-of-the-art designand manufacture processes, equipment, and distributed collaborative design and manufactureprojects (challenges) in an affordable and safe environment.
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