Design of a Web-based Teaching Environment for Engineering Education of Undergraduates

The increasing use of internet in people's daily life and its continuous development lead to the inevitable use of web-based applications because of their easy access in any place at any time. In this study, a new Web-based teaching environment is developed and presented for the engineering education of undergraduates. The web-based teaching environment model consists of bulletins on major information, materials of major courses, interacting between teachers and students, simulating design, and practicing application (BMISP). The process of engineering education can easily realize the interaction between teachers and students, the interaction between theory and practice, and the interaction between process and result by using the web-based teaching environment. A case based on the web-based teaching environment model for the majority of electronic information engineering in Ningbo Institute of Technology, Zhejiang University (NIT) is introduced as a successful example. Both teachers and students can realize great advantages of the web-based Teaching Environment.