Virtual Reality in the Environmental Engineering Curriculum

摘要该奖项在Thomas Harmon博士的指导下为加州大学洛杉矶分校提供资金，用于支持一个名为“环境工程课程中的虚拟现实”的联合研究课程开发项目。该项目的目标是将环境恢复研究的最新发展纳入土木和环境工程课程；利用虚拟现实编程语言（VRML）的最新突破来实现这一目标，并评估所提出的方法作为教学工具的有效性，以及将当前开发的技术注入工程课程的潜力。该项目将把土木与环境工程领域的最新研究成果与加州大学洛杉矶分校建筑与城市设计学院可视化和虚拟模拟领域的研究成果联系起来。拟议研究的有形产品将是一个交互式现场调查软件（ISIS）包。该课程的设计项目将基于一个危险废物场地的虚拟现实/实时模拟器。学生们将在计算机终端上可视化该站点，并使用鼠标控制的光标在站点中移动。

EEC-9700753 Harmon ABSTRACT The award provides funding to the University of California-Los Angeles, under the direction of Dr. Thomas Harmon, for the support of a Combined Research-Curriculum Development project entitled, "Virtual Reality in the Environmental Engineering Curriculum." This project's goals are to incorporate recent developments in environmental restoration research to the civil and environmental engineering curriculum; to do so using recent breakthroughs in virtual reality programming language (VRML) and to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach as a teaching tool and its potential to infuse the engineering curriculum with currently developing techniques. This project will link the recent research results in Civil and Environmental Engineering with those of an investigator in the field of visualization and virtual simulations in UCLA's School of Architecture and Urban Design. The tangible product of the proposed research will be an interactive site investigation software (ISIS) package. The design project for the course will be based on a virtual reality/real time simulator of a hazardous waste site. The students will visualize the site at the computer terminal, and travel throughout the site using a mouse-controlled cursor.