INTEGRATING COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN CONCEPTS TO THE MECHANICAL AND AEROSPACE ENGINEERING CURRICULUM AT WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY.

Since early 1983 the College of Engineering at West Virginia University has embarked on initiating specific design phases to implement Computer-Aided Educational Methods into the curriculum for its engineering students. This paper describes ongoing trends towards implementing these concepts by the College of Engineering to include University/Industry collaborations and more specifically efforts by the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering towards the establishment of Integrated Computer-Aided Design Laboratory to add extra dimension to the existing Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering curriculm.