A Course for the Development of 3-D Spatial Visualization Skills in Freshman Engineering Students

培养工程新生 3D 空间可视化技能的课程

• 批准号: 9254207
• 负责人: Beverly Baartmans
• 金额: $ 12万
• 依托单位: Michigan Technological University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-01-01 至 1995-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9254207&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Course; Development; Spatial; Visualization; Skills

Spatial visualization is known to be a valuable and often essential skill for engineers in all of the disciplines. The purpose of this project is to design a three credit course in three-dimensional spatial visualization and to develop the necessary materials from which the course can be taught. These materials will include a written textbook and a laboratory manual. The laboratory exercises will involve sketching and computer graphics and will also utilize the visualization capabilities of IDEAS software. Freshmen engineering students with weak 3-D visualization skills are the target audience for this course. Women have been found to be approximately three times less likely than men to have well-developed spatial visualization skills. Thus, it is expected that the proposed course will increase the accessibility of engineering studies to women. The goal of this course is to provide the prerequisite spatial visualization skills needed by students to succeed in their subsequent engineering design graphics courses and in their later study and work.

众所周知，空间可视化是所有学科中工程师的一项有价值且通常必不可少的技能。本项目的目的是设计一门三学分的三维空间可视化课程，并开发必要的教学材料。这些材料将包括一本书面教科书和一份实验室手册。实验练习将涉及素描和计算机图形，也将利用IDEAS软件的可视化能力。本课程的目标受众是缺乏三维可视化技能的工科新生。研究发现，女性拥有高度空间想象能力的可能性大约是男性的三分之一。因此，预期拟议的课程将增加妇女获得工程研究的机会。本课程的目标是为学生提供在后续工程设计图形课程以及以后的学习和工作中取得成功所需的先决条件的空间可视化技能。