Compressible Flow Visualization, A CD-Rom For Engineering Education

工程-机械（56）这是一个概念验证项目，展示了超媒体方法用于本科工程教育材料的可行性。在可压缩流体流动的高年级本科课题领域，将开发高度可视化的多媒体材料，重点是实验流动的可视化。目前正在研制一种原型CD-ROM，可供教师和学生使用，作为任何标准教科书的视觉补充，这为今后发展这种教育方法指明了道路。未来的发展可能包括与一个类似的项目合作，开发用于不可压缩流的CD-ROM。该项目利用了光盘技术的低成本和易于使用，也适合在全国传播。通过为教师提供新的辅助教学工具，以促进教师的发展，同时通过在学习过程中锻炼学生使用计算机和多媒体来解决技术的整合问题。这里开发的材料旨在传达一种实验室体验的感觉，以及超越标准文本线条图的真实流动模式的实际物理外观。该项目旨在补充，而不是用高度可视化的研究级材料取代教科书，而不会使学生感到害怕或偏离介绍性课程的标准目标。宾夕法尼亚州立大学和其他机构正在评估原型CD-ROM的学习成果。

Engineering - Mechanical (56)This is a proof-of-concept project to demonstrate the feasibility of a Hypermedia approach to materials for undergraduate engineering education. Highly visual multimedia materials will be developed in the upper-division undergraduate topic area of compressible fluid flow, with strong emphasis on experimental flow visualization. A prototype CD-ROM is being developed that can be used by instructors and students as a visual supplement to any of the standard textbooks, and that points the way for future development of this educational approach. The future development may include collaboration with a similar project for development of a CD-ROM for incompressible flow. This project makes use of the low-cost and ease of use of CD-ROM technology, which is also suitable for national dissemination. Faculty development is enhanced by providing faculty with an new supplementary teaching tool, while integration of technology is addressed through exercising student use of computers and multimedia in the learning process. The materials developed here are designed to convey a sense of the laboratory experience, and that of the actual physical appearance of real flow patterns beyond standard text line drawings. The project is meant to supplement, not replace textbook treatment with highly visual, research-grade material without intimidating the student or sidetracking the standard objectives of an introductory class. Learning outcomes from the prototype CD-ROM are being evaluated at Penn State University and other institutions.