Thermofluid Dynamics: CD-ROMs for Engineering Education

工程机械(56)这是一个基于成功的概念验证拨款(美国国家科学基金会奖9952653号)的全面发展提案，展示了一种针对高年级本科生工程教育材料的创新方法。视觉材料在传达技术概念方面的价值是非常确定的，这里以多媒体形式应用于热流体动力学(即对流换热、热力学和气体动力学)的主题，重点放在实验和光流可视化上。结果是收集在一张或多张CD-ROM上的材料，教师和学生可以使用这些材料作为有关这些主题的任何标准教科书的视觉补充。这种方法利用了光盘技术无处不在、成本低廉的特点，对于有时缺乏将实验室经验直接传达给学生的设施的小型和少数族裔大学尤其重要。正在解决的主要挑战是用目前缺乏的高度可视化的材料来加强传统的工程教育，从而向学生传达一种研究-实验室体验的感觉。这里还讨论了一个应有的主题是教师发展，为教师提供了一种不同寻常的辅助教学工具，从而扩大了他们的准备工作，使他们的准备工作超越了传统的教科书。技术整合也是该项目的一个组成部分。也就是说，在学习过程中，课程材料要求学生使用计算机并与多媒体系统环境进行交互。关键词：多媒体、多媒体流体力学、光流可视化。

Engineering - Mechanical (56)This is a Full-Scale-Development Proposal based on a successful Proof-of-Concept Grant(NSF Award No. 9952653) demonstrating an innovative approach to materials for upper-division undergraduate engineering education. The value of visual materials in conveying technical concepts is very well established, and is here applied in a multimedia form to the topic of thermofluid dynamics (i.e. convective heat transfer, thermodynamics, and gas dynamics), with strong emphasis on experimentation and optical flow visualization. The results are materials captured on one or more CD-ROMs that can be used by instructors and students as a visual supplement to any of the standard textbooks on these topics. The suitability of such materials for national dissemination has already been demonstrated.This approach makes use of the ubiquity and low-cost of CD-ROM technology, which makes it especially important for small and minority universities that sometimes lack the facilities to convey the laboratory experience directly to their students. Themajor SMET challenge being addressed is that of enhancing traditional engineering education with highly-visual material not currently available, and thus conveying to students a sense of the research-laboratory experience. One DUE theme also addressed here is faculty development, by providing faculty with an unusual supplementary teaching tool, thus broadening their preparation beyond what is traditionally availablein textbooks. Integration of technology is also a component part of this project. That is,during the learning, the course materials require the students to use computers and to interface with multimedia systems environments.Keywords: Multimedia, multimedia fluid mechanics, optical flow visualization.