Sammendrag
The modern society is extensively depending on welded products like bridges, constructions of pipes, buildings, transport equipment and so forth. Our safety depends on quality of materials, welder?s basic competence, and their continuous skills upgrading towards new welding processes and materials. Sustainable economic growth of the European economy is strengthened by offering welder specialists in the European wide fabrication industry, with a turnover of more than 1.6 billion Euros per year, around 1.900.000 employees directly working within the welding sector, with free movement of products, services and personnel, improved learning environments that considerably reduce failures. The lack of adequate mathematical background within the educational system is growing and causing problems in understanding of complex problem spaces within for instance material sciences. Additionally, the involvement of the students in the educational development of the courses, through giving just-in-time feedback to the teacher, will be a crucial activity in order to create an inclusive learning environment. This paper will discuss the current developments taking place in the Leonardo da Vinci funded project IQSIM and EuroMecca where new are developed to leapfrog the problem with students lacking the fundamental mathematical background and to stimulate the students to be involved in the development of the education course. The impact envisaged by iQSim project is to develop a brand new type of simulator tools that improve existing training materials and study paths, in combination with development of new pedagogical methodologies. The advantage of online simulator tools is that students and instructors may dynamical play with the essential welding parameters in order to visually understand the tolerance window occurring in real life roduction, and make up alternative decision routes that may handle both technical and economical production tasks.
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