RFID-enabled real-Time mechanical workshop training center

Mechanical workshop training is important in engineering education, which often faces challenges such as the management of a large number of teaching resources, manual and paper-based data collection and the low efficiency and effectiveness of teaching operations. This paper proposes an RFID-enabled Engineering Workshop Training Center (EWTC) by first integrating the Teaching by Examples and Learning by Doing (TELD) principle to enhance the teaching efficiency and effectiveness. ''Teaching by examples'' allows the students to ''see and then remember'', while, ''Learning by Doing'' allows students to ''do and then understand''. Secondly, EWTC uses RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) technology to convert various resources into smart teaching objects (STOs), which are connected by wireless networks in order to collect real-time information in an intelligent ambience. Finally, it adopts the Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) model to develop the system architecture to use the real-time RFID data for facilitating different users' operations and behaviors.Areal-life case study illustrates how the RFID-enabledEWTCrationalizes a typical mechanical workshop training item in a university. By qualitative analysis, the daily operations of typical end-users, such as teaching supervisors, tutors and students are reengineered and improved into a pedagogical level that is real-time, optimal and specific. A set of statistics implies the upgrade of EWTC in quantitative analysis.