The teaching material of Stirling engine and the acquisition of digital production technology

Abstract

At Tokyo Metropolitan Vocational Skills Development Center, job trainings are provided for job seekers to attain basic skills for employment. We carried out 20 years manufacturing competition for improvement of the skill and interest to manufacturing. The competition was divided into four branches and the teaching material of the machine course is a Stirling engine. At the machine course of the Itabashi school, we worked on the production of Stirling engine to acquire the digital manufacturing technology. The digital manufacturing technology is a design technology by the 3D CAD, programing for the NC machine and operation of the NC machine. We reported the class situation, the production of Stirling engine for five years from 2007 to 2012. And we verified the class effect by the acquisition degree investigation and the questionnaire survey from students. As a result, those class training succeeded considerably in their job search. It was made clear those class training had the good effects for the students to acquire the skill of digital production technology. And we researched company about the introduction situation of the digital production technology and completion students about the situation after the employment passing for a certain period of time about 10 years.

Keywords

• engineering education
• vocational training
• stiring engine
• digital technology
• training task
• production process
• teaching material