Building experimental teaching program and mechanical virtual testing software for undergraduate schools

Abstract

There have been many research achievements in science and technology to improve the training efficiency and satisfy the educational reform in Vietnam today. These are seen as clear evidence of so many efforts of teachers and students all over the country in researching and studying. On the other hand, there always remains the problem of financial investment. It is not easy for most schools or universities to have sufficient budget to buy equipment for their labs. In this context, the University of Technical Education―or more precisely, the research group of its Faculty of civil and applied mechanics―attempted a subject entitled “Building virtual mechanic lab – tertiary education”. It was meant to improve the research organization while serving as an orientation toward a long-term strategy for satisfying the teaching demands and social needs.

In this paper, we use various softwares such as Autocad, C⁺⁺, Matlab, Flash… to simulate mechanical experiment lessons for practice on computers.