Jeff Raquet, Senior Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, was faced with a continually growing CAD lab with fresh faced freshman and took the opportunity to implement a new type of learning versus the age old engineering textbooks. With the ever increasing costs of textbooks, Jeff researched other opportunities in order to not only save his students money on textbooks, but to save himself time in teaching his large introductory courses. Jeff beta tested PTC University’s eLearning Libraries and Precision LMS into his Introduction to Engineering Design freshman level course of about 120 students in the fall semester of 2012. After the price of PTC University became more affordable than a textbook for students and since his students were new to the university, it sounded like the perfect opportunity to test the system and get feedback from his students who hadn’t already become accustomed to an engineering textbook. Using PTC University’s Precision LMS, Jeff was able to create his introductory course at UNC Charlotte with pre-existing content in eLearning Libraries, such as the fundamentals course, and was able to skip over courses that weren’t relevant to his current curriculum. The most useful tool for him was being able to post his assignments and due dates within the tool with PDFs that linked to his existing download models. “It was not only great to utilize the course content to build my own ‘textbook’, but it was helpful to be able to track the usage time of my students, when they were online, how long, and if they had completed the assignments or not. I really want to help my students save some money. By reducing their textbook price by $75 and giving them a resource that will track the latest versions of the software throughout their education at UNC Charlotte, it’s a wise investment. As a teacher, it saves me time teaching so it really is a win-win from both sides.” After testing the system in the fall semester, Jeff has decided to implement this system with his spring semester class of almost 200 students and is suggesting that PTC University be utilized in upper level courses at UNC Charlotte as well to continue their students’ education with the system. He will also be looking into utilizing the testing and quiz resources throughout Precision LMS in order to automate the assessments of his students. To learn more about PTC University eLearning Libraries, please visit ptc .com/go/academicprogram or contact us to get started.

1. Case Study
PTC ACADEMIC PROGRAM:
Delivering an Academic Advantage
Jeff Raquet, Lecturer of Mechanical Engineering at the University of North
Carolina at Charlotte, North Carolina
Jeff Raquet, Senior Lecturer of Mechanical
Engineering at the University of North Caro-
lina at Charlotte, was faced with a continually
growing CAD lab with fresh faced freshman and
took the opportunity to implement a new type
of learning versus the age old engineering text-
books.
With the ever increasing costs of textbooks, Jeff researched other opportunities in
order to not only save his students money on textbooks, but to save himself time in
teaching his large introductory courses.
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2. Case Study
Jeff beta tested PTC University’s eLearning Libraries and Preci-
sion LMS into his Introduction to Engineering Design freshman level
course of about 120 students in the fall semester of 2012. After the
price of PTC University became more affordable than a textbook
for students and since his students were new to the university, it
sounded like the perfect opportunity to test the system and get
feedback from his students who hadn’t already become accustomed
to an engineering textbook.
Using PTC University’s Precision LMS, Jeff was able to create his
introductory course at UNC Charlotte with pre-existing content in
eLearning Libraries, such as the fundamentals course, and was
able to skip over courses that weren’t relevant to his current cur-
Raquet was able to create his introductory course at
riculum. The most useful tool for him was being able to post his UNC Charlotte with pre-existing content in eLearn-
assignments and due dates within the tool with PDFs that linked to ing Libraries, such as the fundamentals course.
his existing download models.
“It was not only great to utilize the course content to build my own
‘textbook’, but it was helpful to be able to track the usage time
of my students, when they were online, how long, and if they had
completed the assignments or not. I really want to help my stu-
dents save some money. By reducing their textbook price by $75
and giving them a resource that will track the latest versions of the
software throughout their education at UNC Charlotte, it’s a wise
investment. As a teacher, it saves me time teaching so it really is a
win-win from both sides.”
After testing the system in the fall semester, Jeff has decided to
implement this system with his spring semester class of almost 200
students and is suggesting that PTC University be utilized in upper
level courses at UNC Charlotte as well to continue their students’
education with the system. He will also be looking into utilizing the
testing and quiz resources throughout Precision LMS in order to
automate the assessments of his students.
To learn more about PTC University eLearning Libraries, please
visit ptc.com/go/academicprogram or contact us to get started.
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