Computer Graphics in Undergraduate Engineering Education

计算机图形学是一门新的学科，它深刻地改变了传统的工程设计方法。本项目将展示计算机图形学作为工程课程中的一门新学科，以及作为工程设计和制图的重要新工具。该项目的形式是一个研讨会/讲习班，由16名精心挑选的参与者组成，为期三周。它将包括演讲、讨论、演示和其他形式的互动，参与者和活跃在工程和计算机图形学领域的教学和研究的教师之间。该项目将吸引有经验和有前途的工程图学本科教师，他们需要动力、背景和专业知识来开发新的计算机图学实验室，并将前沿技术应用于现代计算机辅助设计和绘图（CADD）工程图学课程的教学。它还承诺为参与者做好准备，并帮助他们努力引入工程计算机图形学的新课程，并激励他们成为自力更生，在工程教育领域做出和发表自己的贡献。除了国家科学基金会的支持外，参与者将提供大约10%的旅费，大学将额外提供15%。

Computer Graphics is a new discipline that has profoundly changed traditional approaches to Engineering Design. This project will present Computer Graphics as a new discipline in engineering curricula and as a significant new tool for Engineering Design and Drafting. The format of the project is a Seminar/Workshop with a group of 16 carefully selected participants during a three week period. It will include presentations, discussions, demonstrations and other forms of interaction between participants and faculty that are active in teaching and research in the area of Engineering and Computer Graphics. The project will attract, interest, and enlighten experienced and promising undergraduate instructors teaching Engineering Graphics who need motivation, background, and know-how to develop new Computer Graphics laboratories and to apply leading-edge technology to the teaching of modern, computer aided design and drafting (CADD)-based Engineering Graphics courses. It also promises to prepare participants for and to help them in their efforts to introduce new courses in Engineering Computer Graphics, and to motivate them to become self- reliant in making and publishing their own contributions to this field of Engineering Education. In addition to NSF support, participants will provide about 10% in travel costs, and the University is contributing an additional 15%.