Intelligent Tutoring System for Visual Reasoning in Solid Modeling

工程-机械（56）工程师对物理对象和过程的几何方面进行可视化和推理的能力对工程师活动的成功至关重要。 视觉推理能力是所有学科工程教育的重要基础。 本计画的目标是发展一个智慧型教学软体系统，以支援不同学生的学习需求，并能追踪学生的学习进度，给予学生积极的评价。 其目的是提供一个学习系统，学生可以开发可视化和空间推理能力，在一个自定进度的一系列练习与实体建模。 一套全面的视觉和空间推理问题正在开发的视觉分析和视觉合成的组合是必需的。 智能辅导模块提供了一个一步一步的批判，在解决个别问题，以及正确的路线通过一系列的问题，不同的困难和不同类型的学生。 该软件系统显着扩展了视觉推理教学软件系统的范围和深度，该系统已经开发和测试的主要研究者的这个项目。 所编写的教材将在威斯康星州的两个校区（密尔沃基和麦迪逊）以及圣马丁学院和北方伊利诺伊大学进行测试。 该软件系统和教学材料将通过威斯康星州大学的学习中心在全国范围内传播。

Engineering - Mechanical (56)The ability of an engineer to visualize and reason about geometric aspects of physical objects and processes is crucial to the success of the activities of the engineer. The visual reasoning capability forms the essential foundation for engineering education in all disciplines. The objective of this project is to develop an intelligent instructional software system for visual reasoning which can adaptively support different student learning needs, track students' progress and give an active critique. The intent is to provide a learning system with which a student can develop visualizing and spatial reasoning capabilities in a self-paced series of exercises related to solid modeling. A comprehensive set of visual and spatial reasoning problems is being developed where a combination of visual analysis and visual synthesis is required. The intelligent tutoring module provides a step-by-step critique in solving individual problems as well as properly routing the student through a series of problems with varying difficulties and different types. The software system significantly expands both the scope and depth of the visual reasoning instructional software system which has already been developed and tested by the principal investigator of this project. The educational materials developed will be tested at two University of Wisconsin campuses: Milwaukee and Madison, as well as at St. Martin's College and Northern Illinois University. The software system and pedagogical materials will be disseminated nationally using the University of Wisconsin's Learning Center for distribution.