Establishing an Educational Manufacturing Ecosystem
Abstract: provide students and educators with curated, carefully reviewed Computer-Aided Design (CAD) models. A National Science Foundation Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems (POSE) Phase I award has been provided to support this work. The ecosystem will be structured around an existing open-source Educational CAD Model Repository developed through prior NSF support. The long-term ecosystem will include a clearinghouse for CAD models with (a) peer-reviewed articles describing classroom use, and (b) the models linked to associated downloadable files in the repository. Accepted practitioner-based articles will be published in a new journal, Educational Fabrication & Design (ED&F), established as one component of the ecosystem. Educational CAD models will be externally reviewed, tested, and validated before they are added to the repository.