Elective Course
Credits: 3-0-3 (3 semester hours)
Type of Course: Lecture
Instructor: Charles Eastman
Prerequisites: Graduate Standing
Course Overview: Design and engineering organizations are undergoing dramatic changes, based on IT and Web technologies. This course is constructed to review current technologies and to explore emerging technologies for design and engineering data integration and exchange. It provides a review of the field from the earliest days of CAD, through the current period using ISO-STEP technologies, and looks forward to the next generation of data management using the Semantic Web.
Part One: Engineering Processes and Process Modeling (3.5 weeks)
Part Two: Standard Database Concepts and Technology (4.5 Weeks)
Part Three: Data and Process Integration and Exchange Using STEP (4 weeks)
Part Four: XML and the Semantic Web (5 weeks)
Learning Objectives: (See above)
Course Requirements: The course does not make assumptions regarding student's background in databases per sec, but does assume background in engineering and design applications, and some knowledge of software development
Required Reading:- ESPRIT 020408 - VEGA. A Model of Workflow. Specification of a Model for the Definition of Workflows in Virtual LSE Enterprises.
- Introduction to BPMN Stephen White, IBM.
- Process Modeling Notations and Workflow Patterns, Stephen White, IBM.
- Kenneth Crow, DRM Associates, (2002) Configuration Management and Engineering Change Control.
- ISO9000
Support Readings:
- Ghang Lee, Charles M. Eastman, and Rafael Sacks, Eliciting Information for Product Modeling using Process Modeling, Data & Knowledge Engineering, 62/2: pp. 292-307.
- Eastman,CM (1996) “Managing Integrity in Design Information Flows”, Computer Aided Design, (May, 1996), 28:6/7, pp.551-565.