Planning Grant: Simulation and Visualization Enhanced Engineering Education

规划补助金：模拟和可视化增强工程教育

• 批准号: 0343136
• 负责人: Sushil Chaturvedi
• 金额: $ 9.99万
• 依托单位: Old Dominion University Research Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-09-01 至 2005-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0343136&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Simulation; Visualization; Enhanced

This planning grant to Old Dominion University has the long-term goal of to enhancing the student learning process by a curricular transformation that integrates visualization modules, simulation software, and virtual experiments and labs seamlessly across all engineering disciplines. The planning grant itself will address a number of specific questions: What is the best way to educate engineering students to provide them with hands-on experience through the virtual domain to address the changing requirements of industry? What visualization technology platforms should be used? What existing educational materials are most suitable for adoption based on the College.s curricula transformation vision? What visualization modules should be prepared in-house, and what widely used computer software should be integrated in courses? How can different education technology tools be integrated seamlessly into the curricula? What assessment instruments should be developed to gage the effectiveness of the proposed transformation? These questions will be answered in the planning grant through the establishment of the Visualization-Enhanced Engineering Education Laboratory (VEEEL), which will feature the development of a prototype visualization module as a test bed for the proof of concept. The Laboratory will also serve as a catalyst for partnerships among the faculty and area institutions, visualization and simulation software companies, and other academic institutions with proven success in this area.

这项授予Old Dominion大学的规划拨款的长期目标是通过课程改革来加强学生的学习过程，将可视化模块、模拟软件以及跨所有工程学科的虚拟实验和实验室无缝地整合在一起。规划补助金本身将解决一些具体问题：教育工科学生通过虚拟领域为他们提供实践经验的最佳方式是什么，以满足行业不断变化的要求？应该使用哪些可视化技术平台？根据学院的课程改革愿景，哪些现有的教育材料最适合采用？哪些可视化模块应该在内部准备，哪些广泛使用的计算机软件应该集成到课程中？如何将不同的教育技术工具无缝地整合到课程中？应开发哪些评估工具来衡量拟议转型的有效性？这些问题将通过建立可视化增强工程教育实验室(VEEEL)在规划赠款中得到解答，该实验室将开发一个原型可视化模块，作为概念验证的试验台。该实验室还将作为教师和地区机构、可视化和模拟软件公司以及在这一领域取得成功的其他学术机构之间伙伴关系的催化剂。