PACE 2010

2010 PACE Global Annual Forum10:30 – 10:55 Institution and Industry Presentations – Breakout SessionsEngineering Track:“Using Teamcenter Community for Collaborative Projects andCompetitions”Presenters: Berhane Sertu, Systems Administrator, University of Toronto,CanadaAlan Steeves, Engineer, University of British Columbia, CanadaLocation: Conference Room BAs industry moves global and their use of collaborative tools increase, it is importantthat our students be exposed to these tools during their undergraduate education.There are however a number of obstacles that must be overcome when usingcollaborative tools as an element of instruction in higher education. Faculty and Stafftime is limited, resources are scarce and student’s course loads leave little time tolearn new software. Despite these challenges, we have found the use of TeamcenterCommunity (TcC) and other collaborative tools to be manageable from anadministrative point of view and that their use provides our students with anenhanced learning experience.Deploying collaborative software in an academic environment is much different thanin a commercial setting. This presentation explains how TcC functions, itsrecommended setup and how that setup can be modified to fit an academic project.We will also show how we use Skype, Google Documents and video conferencing tocomplement TcC.Examples are presented that show how TcC has been used on small, medium andlarge projects. For each project we detail the problems we had, what we did to fixthose problems and what we plan to improve. Both the University of British Columbiaand the University of Toronto have redesigned computer laboratories to facilitatecollaboration and details of those designs are presented.Curriculum Track:“Generating and verifying variants with Knowledge Fusion and Check-Mate for part modeling examination with NX of undergraduate CADtraining at TU Darmstadt”Presenter: Michael Maurer, Research Assistant at Department of ComputerIntegrated Design, Technische Universität Darmstadt, GermanyLocation: Conference Room 4This presentation describes methodology, concept and technical realization of usingKnowledge Fusion (a tool of NX for Knowledge Based Engineering) to generatevariants via series and modular design systems. Furthermore it explains theautomatic control mechanism via Check-Mate (a tool of NX for evaluating parts) withself-created checkers to get the examination results as little as possible workload forthe supervisors.Facing Global Challenges – Solutions for the Future 15