An interactive Web-based teaching tool for simplified 3D analysis of solar rhythms

Jain, Archit; Kensek, Karen; Noble, Douglas

doi:10.1016/s0926-5805(98)00072-7

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“…With the advances in information technology (IT) over the last decade, the traditional teaching format of having an individual lecture to an audience has been supplemented, and in some cases, replaced by the rapid development and implementation of new distance learning methods. Classroom use of IT for teaching science, engineering and technology has increased dramatically in recent years and Page 8.1283.1 has proved to be very effective in various situations [1][2][3][4][5][6][7] . Contemporary applications of IT allow us to develop learner-centered virtual design studios that can be reached to a large student population via the web.…”

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confidence: 99%

Visualization Techniques For Structural Design Education

Haque¹

2003 Annual Conference Proceedings

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The contemporary information technology (IT) allows us to develop learner-centered virtual design studios that can be reached to a large student population via the web. Considerable pedagogical advantages can be achieved by the integration of IT and visualization tools in teaching engineering technology. Structural analysis and design concept visualization, whether in reinforced concrete or steel structure is a subject that depends on geometric and physical perception, and every effort should be made by educators to enhance this ability. This makes it an interesting challenge in an exciting area, requiring creativity, imagination, as well as knowledge, and systematic thinking. Although the classroom environment in Engineering and Construction Science is highly structured by the instructor, teaching students to be critical thinkers is essential in the virtual classroom of the future. The textbooks available in structural design are mostly prepared for engineering students, and do an excellent job, but the associated rigorous theories make it an uninteresting academic hurdle for many below mediocre students. However, when the theories are exemplified in a virtual environment with multimedia, animation, interaction, virtual walk-through, and manipulated image visualization techniques, students' conceptual understanding are enhanced. This paper demonstrates various design concept visualization techniques including image visualization/animation, image manipulation, interactive flowchart based analysis and design animation, and walk-through virtual navigation. These visualization techniques can be valuable aids not only in teaching design principles in the class room but also an effective self directed tool for open learning via the web. All the techniques as discussed in this paper employ a generic programming architecture, which is discipline independent and can be adapted to any other similar domain, which will certainly promote and enhance students' understanding.

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Visualization Techniques For Structural Design Education

Haque¹

2003 Annual Conference Proceedings

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“…It is in response to this need that the computer based interactive prototype courseware model was conceived 1,2 . The interactive computer aided learning [1][2][3][4][5] allows the students to proceed at their own pace, motivated by a curiosity about "what happens" interactivity and " the need to know" the design principles.…”

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Web Based Visualization Techniques For Structural Design Education

Haque¹

2001 Annual Conference Proceedings

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With the advances in information technology over the last decade, the traditional teaching format of having an individual lecture to an audience has been supplemented, and in some cases, replaced by the rapid development and implementation of new distance learning methods. As technology rapidly changes, the importance of educating and training diverse populations of civil/construction engineering/science students becomes more critical. Traditional lecture format teaching methods sometimes fall short of conveying the complex analysis and design principles that need to be mastered in structural design. However when the theories are exemplified in a virtual environment with multimedia, animation, interaction, and manipulated image visualization techniques in a virtual reality environment, students' conceptual understanding are enhanced. The important advantages of the virtual reality environment over other computerbased design tools are that it enables the user to interact with the simulation to conceptualize relations that are not apparent from a less dynamic representation, and to visualize models that are difficult to understand in other ways. The interactive nature of virtual environments made it a natural extension to the 3-D graphics that enable students to visualize real life structures before actually building them. The main objective of this research was to create an innovative structural design concept visualization methodology on a web-based interactive virtual environment. The principal elements of the presented approach are: animation, user interaction, manipulated image visualization, and virtual navigation. The presented paper illustrates the design concept visualization techniques for flexural and shear behavior of reinforced concrete beams. It was created using mainly Java and Virtual Reality Modeling Languages (VRML). The presented teaching and learning methodology employed a generic architecture, which was discipline/course independent, and can be adapted to various other civil/construction engineering/science courses that will certainly promote and enhance students' subject visualization and conceptual understanding.

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“…The presented soil laboratory studio which uses guided tutoring and simulations of tests prior to formal instruction and hands-on tests will alert the student to the overall nature of the soil tests. Like other interactive computer aided learning, 4,5,6 the proposed model allows the students to proceed at their own pace, motivated by a curiosity about "what happens" interactivity and " the need to know" test principles and procedures.…”

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Java Simulation Based Soil Mechanics Laboratory Course Studio

Potsawatsuk¹,

Haque²,

Vamadevan³

2000 Annual Conference Proceedings

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In the field of civil/geotechnical engineering, students conduct a variety of soil tests to fulfill undergraduate soil mechanics course requirement. There is a range of problems in soil laboratory instruction, such as, some students not getting hands on experience of conducting tests because of inadequate number of apparatus, time constraints and inability in exciting students to seriously conduct the experiments. However when these laboratory soil tests are simulated with multimedia interaction and visualization techniques, the student's conceptual understanding of soil mechanics is enhanced. The methodology presented in this paper is based on presenting students with simulation of laboratory soil tests, which creates an individualized, interactive and guided learning environment. The main elements of this approach are: a means of assimilating the students' interactive learning knowledge and behavior (user model), representation of the instructor's guidance and assessment knowledge (tutor model), utilization of motivational techniques such as multimedia, animation (visual model) and simulated laboratory test model (simulation model). As an example, the presented paper provides the learning environment to understand soil characteristics such as grain size distribution. The approach adopted in this research is that of intelligent interactive learning environment, which is developed, using Java simulation. This contains basic interrelated definitions (concepts), various graphic presentation of soil characteristics, test procedures and Java simulation of dynamic laboratory testing. Although the presented approach is being applied to understand basic soil mechanics, it employs a generic architecture, which is discipline independent and can be adapted to any other similar domain which will certainly promote and enhance students' understanding.

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An interactive Web-based teaching tool for simplified 3D analysis of solar rhythms

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Visualization Techniques For Structural Design Education

Visualization Techniques For Structural Design Education

Web Based Visualization Techniques For Structural Design Education

Java Simulation Based Soil Mechanics Laboratory Course Studio

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