Research and Practice of Case Teaching in the Course of Mechanical Optimal Design

The characteristics of Mechanical Optimal Design and the function of case teaching are introduced,and the problems in the teaching of Mechanical Optimal Design are analyzed.The applications of case teaching to Mechanical Optimal Design are discussed from the aspects of case selection,case presentation,case analysis,case solution and case summarization.Case teaching can inspire the students' interest,broaden their scopes of creative thinking,and strengthen their abilities of engineering practice.