Multimedia support for learning advanced packaging manufacturing practices

We propose to develop a Manufacturing Research Training System (MRTS) that is focused on the domain of advanced packaging prototype manufacture. Our approach takes into account the unique features of such a manufacturing environment where a diverse group of students need to acquire knowledge at various levels of detail about a rapidly changing process and environment. We will use PML, a new procedural markup language, to develop the knowledge organization and media separately and couple them by cognitive media roles. This enables the separation of the content organization from the presentation. This separation has several advantages over a coupled approach, the most important of which is the ability to customize the presentation to the user in a dynamic fashion. Our approach is well founded on current theories of how learning takes place in real world environments. The result of this project will be a new tool to support learning that will have been tested in the context of the Packaging Research Center at Georgia Tech, but which will be generic enough to support prototype manufacturing environments at other locations and other parts of the electronics manufacturing chain