CALS conception for the educational program at the university in the study of metrology and other technical disciplines

Abstract

The educational program at the university is designed taking into consideration the university wishes and the requirements of regulatory documents. The basis of the training program is the curriculum. It contains academic disciplines with the appropriate parameters: a semester, a number of credit units, the number of hours for classroom work, types of classes. For its implementation the resources are used: a lot of teachers (in departments), a lot of students (in groups), a lot of classrooms (for classes), a lot of equipment (of various types), a lot of training materials, a lot of e-learning courses. Many academic disciplines are combined with each set of resources. Each resource has its own parameters. To allocate the resources, these parameters and many conditions should be considered. This is a multi-criteria optimization task. The resource parameters and restrictions can change during the educational program’ functioning. It requires the development of a new educational program plan. This can be done using the concept of Continuous Acquisition and Life-Cycle Support (CALS) which is widely used in industry but not in education. The CALS concept is based on the use of automated information systems.