Collaborative Project: Virtual-Reality-based Educational Laboratories in Fiber Optic Engineering

合作项目：基于虚拟现实的光纤工程教育实验室

• 批准号: 0935006
• 负责人: Michael Kozhevnikov
• 金额: $ 14.57万
• 依托单位: Norfolk State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0935006&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Project; Virtual; Reality; based

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5)This engineering education research award to Norfolk State University in collaboration with George Mason University will employ researchers to integrate virtual reality (VR) based 3-D simulations into an undergraduate optical engineering curriculum. Different immersion levels of VR will be developed and evaluated for fiber optics communications. This research will determine how the VR modules affect conceptual understanding in students, which aspects of VR are most supportive of complex conceptual learning, and how the impact of 3-D visualization modules is related to student learning styles and preferences. Desktop VR modules and web-based modules will be disseminated. This research will develop an innovative instructional environment and advance general understanding of the benefits of VR in engineering education. Effective use of VR based instructional tools can complement and extend experience from physical laboratories to improve learning for engineering students.

该奖项根据 2009 年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法 111-5）提供资金。该工程教育研究奖授予诺福克州立大学与乔治梅森大学合作，将雇用研究人员将基于虚拟现实 (VR) 的 3D 模拟集成到本科光学工程课程中。将为光纤通信开发和评估不同沉浸级别的 VR。这项研究将确定 VR 模块如何影响学生的概念理解、VR 的哪些方面最支持复杂的概念学习，以及 3D 可视化模块的影响如何与学生的学习方式和偏好相关。将传播桌面 VR 模块和基于网络的模块。这项研究将开发一个创新的教学环境，并促进人们对虚拟现实在工程教育中的好处的普遍理解。 有效使用基于 VR 的教学工具可以补充和扩展物理实验室的经验，从而改善工程专业学生的学习。