The Development of Visualization Skills in Engineering Students

这个项目的目的是举办一个教员讲习班，定于1995年夏天在密歇根理工大学举行。这些工作坊的重点是教学和评估技术，以发展工程学生的三维空间可视化技能。这个项目建立并传播了一个NSF项目在课程和课程开发领域的成果。前一个项目的产品是开发三维空间可视化能力的教科书和随附的使用I-DEAS软件的计算机实验室手册。工作坊的目标受众是主要负责工程设计图形教学的本科教师。许多刚入学的工科学生，尤其是女性，缺乏培养三维空间可视化能力的背景经验。因此，他们没有准备好在图形课上平等竞争。本次研讨会为工程设计图形教育工作者提供了他们需要的工具，以弥合许多学生背景中的这一差距。据估计，有25名参与者，每年约有2500名工程新生将受益于使用开发的材料和改进的三维空间可视化教学技术。这种改进增加了女性工程专业学生在图形课程中的第一次体验是积极体验的可能性，从而提高了女性工程专业学生的保留率。讲习班思想的传播是由讲习班参与者在其本国机构的工程设计图形学课程中实施改革计划时进行的。通过电子邮件和在专业会议上与其他参与者和项目协调员联系，支持讲习班参与者的工作。在工作坊结束时，参与者将完成一份评估问卷。

The purpose of this project is to conduct a faculty workshop to be held during the summer of 1995 at Michigan Technological University (MTU). The focus of these workshops is on teaching and assessment techniques for the development of 3-D spatial visualization skills in engineering students. This project builds on and disseminates the products of an NSF project in the area of Course and Curriculum Development. The products of this previous project are a textbook for the development of 3-D spatial visualization ability and an accompanying computer lab manual which utilizes I-DEAS software. The target audience for the workshops is undergraduate faculty with primary responsibility in teaching engineering design graphics. Many entering engineering students, particularly women, lack background experiences which would develop 3-D spatial visualization ability. Consequently, they are not prepared to compete on an equal basis in their graphics classes. This workshop provides engineering design graphics educators with the tools they need to bridge this gap in the backgrounds of many of their students. It is estimated that with 25 participants, approximately 2500 engineering freshman per year will benefit from the use of the developed materials and improved teaching techniques for 3-D spatial visualization. This improvement increases the likelihood that the first experience of women engineering students in their graphics curriculum is a positive experience, enhancing retention of female engineering students. Dissemination of workshop ideas is carried out by workshop participants as they implement plans for change at their home institutions in their engineering design graphics curricula. Work- shop participants are supported in their efforts by being networked together through e-mail and through contact with other participants and the project coordinators at professional meetings. An evaluation questionnaire is completed by the participants at the end of the works hop.