Engineering Design Graphics Modernization and Collaborative Learning

该项目将允许购买必要的设备和软件，以便在整个土木工程课程中使用先进的工程设计图形工具。这些第二代工具集成了设计、绘图和分析工程。它们被定义为现代工程设计图形(EDG)工具。这些工具允许设计者绘制其设计的三维模型，然后使用计算机辅助工程软件包中提供的自动化例程对这些模型进行复杂的分析。工科本科生使用EDG工具，并在整个四年课程中将EDG工具作为协作学习练习的焦点。一年级学生在一门新课程《现代计算机图形学》中学到了使用这些工具的技巧。然后，他们在学校的工作平衡中，将自己的模特技能应用于其他班级。通过使用新设备进行实验和演示，增加了七门课程。在高级系统设计课程中，新工具将作为为期一学期的协作学习练习的焦点。

This project will permit the acquisition of the equipment and software necessary to implement the use of advanced Engineering Design Graphics tools throughout the Civil Engineering curriculum. These second generation tools integrate design drafting and analytical engineering. They are defined as modern Engineering Design Graphics (EDG) tools. These tools allow designers to draw three-dimensional models of their designs and then conduct complicated analyses on those models using automated routines that are available within the Computer Aided Engineering software package. Undergraduate engineering students use EDG tools and employ the EDG tools as the focal point for collaborative learning exercises throughout the four- year curriculum. Freshmen are taught the mechanics of using the tools in a new course, Modern Computer Graphics. They then apply their modeling skills in other classes throughout the balance of their work at the school. Seven additional courses are enhanced with experiments and demonstrations using the new equipment. In a senior-level systems design course, the new tools serve as the focal point for a semester-long exercise in collaborative learning.