New ideas for engineering education in virtual environments

Engineering activities are strongly knowledge based. Recent product engineering systems increasingly based on knowledge definition driven product object definition. Knowledge definition and processing can be a common platform of product development in industry and engineering education at universities. The reported research is based on this recognition. The authors of this paper do research in virtual methods based engineering education for several years. In this paper, they summarize, revise, and utilize earlier achievements in a new concept for the application of knowledge processing methods and software tools in virtual engineering systems as assistance for higher education programs. The utmost purpose of the proposed modeling is to move as much as engineering education activity into virtual engineering systems as possible.