Interactive Learning Tool in Product Development for Injection Moulding

Abstract

This work is part of a methodological renovation project from Ingeniería de Fabricación Innovative Education Group, from University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It has developed learning materials for courses in Manufacturing Engineering that can be used in several degrees. In this first learning material, it was decided to take a plastic injection mould as a teaching resource, and can be summarized into design and manufacture a plastic injection product whilst developing a teaching material aimed to explain the necessary stages to make an injection mould, as well as the manufacturing processes related to it. All this work has generated a lot of educational material for both laboratory practices and multimedia. Abundant information generated has been used to develop an interactive electronic publication. Finally this learning material has been chosen by the Publishing and Scientific Diffusion Service from this University, as a new line of work in publications of educational innovation.