{"id":28353,"date":"2022-08-03T14:38:06","date_gmt":"2022-08-03T18:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/?p=28057"},"modified":"2023-01-04T10:35:02","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T15:35:02","slug":"delta-supports-development-of-new-textile-reverse-engineering-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/textiles.ncsu.edu\/news\/2022\/08\/delta-supports-development-of-new-textile-reverse-engineering-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta Supports Development of New Textile Reverse-Engineering Course"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

By Helen Velk<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When you are hoping to discover how a system or object works, reverse-engineering is often the technique used to enhance understanding. After which, you can go forward to redesign and create similar products with added functionality. This can be a complex technique to understand \u2014 especially in an online format.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilson College of Textiles Professor Jesse Jur,\u00a0Research Assistant Professor Amanda Mills<\/a> and Ph.D. student Caitlin Knowles were awarded a DELTA Grant to create a new graduate-level online course focusing on the reverse engineering of textile products. The resulting TE 589: Design Analysis of Smart Textile Products, was created and offered to students during the spring 2022 semester.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main learning objective of this course was to understand and apply reverse engineering principles to analyze and evaluate textile products. Then, to use the knowledge gained to redesign those products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTextile education is all about being hands-on! What we wanted to do in this program is make a virtual experience in textile education to be valued as much as a hands-on experience with the use of new technologies,\u201d Jur explained.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DELTA team working on this project was composed of Lead Instructional Designer Yan Shen, Instructional Media Producer Arthur Earnest, Lead Interaction Designer\/Developer Ben Huckaby, Multimedia Development Team Lead David Tredwell and Assistant Director of Educational Media Donnie Wrights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe DELTA team is a dream to work with! They applied excellent project management skills to keep the progress on track. Moreover, they make your vision come true through the use of experts they have on staff who are focused on new distance education technologies,\u201d said Jur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deliverables which were developed for this new course:<\/p>\n\n\n\n