Compressible Flow Visualization, A CD-Rom For Engineering Education

工程-机械(56)这是一个概念验证项目，旨在证明超媒体方法在本科工程教育材料中的可行性。在可压缩流体流动的高年级本科生主题领域，将开发高度可视化的多媒体材料，重点是实验流动可视化。正在开发一种原型光盘，教师和学生可以使用它作为任何标准教科书的视觉补充，并为这一教育方法的未来发展指明了方向。未来的发展可能包括与开发不可压缩流动光盘的类似项目合作。该项目利用了光盘技术成本低、使用方便的特点，也适合全国推广。通过为教师提供新的辅助教学工具来促进教师发展，而通过让学生在学习过程中使用计算机和多媒体来解决技术集成问题。这里开发的材料旨在传达一种实验室体验的感觉，以及超越标准文字线条图的真实流动模式的实际物理外观的感觉。该项目旨在补充，而不是用高度可视化的研究级材料取代教科书处理，而不是吓倒学生或偏离入门课程的标准目标。宾夕法尼亚州立大学和其他机构正在对原型光盘的学习成果进行评估。

Engineering - Mechanical (56)This is a proof-of-concept project to demonstrate the feasibility of a Hypermedia approach to materials for undergraduate engineering education. Highly visual multimedia materials will be developed in the upper-division undergraduate topic area of compressible fluid flow, with strong emphasis on experimental flow visualization. A prototype CD-ROM is being developed that can be used by instructors and students as a visual supplement to any of the standard textbooks, and that points the way for future development of this educational approach. The future development may include collaboration with a similar project for development of a CD-ROM for incompressible flow. This project makes use of the low-cost and ease of use of CD-ROM technology, which is also suitable for national dissemination. Faculty development is enhanced by providing faculty with an new supplementary teaching tool, while integration of technology is addressed through exercising student use of computers and multimedia in the learning process. The materials developed here are designed to convey a sense of the laboratory experience, and that of the actual physical appearance of real flow patterns beyond standard text line drawings. The project is meant to supplement, not replace textbook treatment with highly visual, research-grade material without intimidating the student or sidetracking the standard objectives of an introductory class. Learning outcomes from the prototype CD-ROM are being evaluated at Penn State University and other institutions.