The Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio - VDDS
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| Audience/Grade: | High School Sophomore - College Senior |
| Discipline(s): |
Computer Engineering Design Electrical Engineering Engineering Graphics and Visualization General Engineering, Engineering Science Materials Engineering Mechanical Engineering Mechatronics |
| Special Topic(s): |
Premier Award Winner Associate Editor's Choice |
| Learning Resource Type: | Teaching - Educational Game |
| Media Type: | WWW |
| Author(s): | David Y. Yu, Alice M. Agogino |
| Publisher(s): | University of California at Berkeley |
| Description: | The Multimedia Virtual Disk Drive Design Studio is an engineering design case study using interactive multimedia courseware for undergraduate engineering and science students. The purpose of this multimedia case is to introduce students to the world of mechatronics in the form of a disk drive. Students play the role of a project engineer for the ACME disk drive company and will have to mine out the necessary information from a multimedia archive in order to build a new disk drive model. Students will have to keep track of the development and production costs. They will also be asked to launch their new disk drives in a certain time frame, simulating the idea of time-to-market. This interactive disk drive case study is ideally complemented by hands-on mechanical dissection of an actual disk drive. This entire project is put together using Macromedia Director. This cross-platform software will allow us to distribute CD-ROMs to a wide spectrum of students around the country with 2x CD-ROM drives. The author is currently collaborating with Western Digital Corporation and IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose. Western Digital Corp. provided the mathematical model for performance calculations while IBM has contributed in the form of technical literature and expert opinions. Named Premier Courseware of 1997. Keywords: Engineering -- Study and teaching -- Curricula, Disk drives -- History, IBM, Computer engineering, Engineering -- Study and teaching -- Audio-visual aids, Engineering -- Computer-assisted instruction, Companies and products, Engineering design, Product development, Computer storage devices -- History, Digital electronics -- Computer-assisted instruction, design for assembly, design for manufacture, DFM, DFA, design trade-offs, artifact dissection; freshman design; K-12 outreach |
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| Related ABET Criteria: |
(c) Design a system, component, or process |
| Use of Resource: |
Immersive game showing design trade-offs I use this case with the actual dissection of hard drives. It is useful to get hard drives produced at different time periods for contrast. Premier Award winner. |
| Difficulty: | Easy |
| Interactivity Level: | Very High |
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| Publication Date: | 1997 |
| Platform/Format: | Cross Platform |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://bits.me.berkeley.edu/mmcs/disk/disk.html |
| Installation Notes: | Distributed on CD-ROM as well as website. For CD ROM version contact author or NEEDS administrator. |
| Version 2 Info | |
| Publication Date: | 1997 |
| Platform/Format: | Macintosh |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://bits.me.berkeley.edu/mmcs/disk/disk.html |
| Installation Notes: | Distributed on CD-ROM, contact author. |
| Version 3 Info | |
| Publication Date: | 1997 |
| Platform/Format: | WWW |
| Cost: | Free |
| Download URL: | http://bits.me.berkeley.edu/mmcs/disk/disk.html |
| Metadata: | IEEE LOM Record |
| Collection: |
NEEDS
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