Collection

2008 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

John T. Tester; Perry G. Wood

Assessing the Motivational Impact of Including Rapid Prototyping into a Freshman CAD Class John T. Tester, Ph.D. Perry G. Wood, P.E. Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZAbstractNorthern Arizona University’s College of Engineering and Natural Sciences is incorporating theuse of a rapid prototyping machine into its freshman computer-aided design (CAD) course, ME180. The authors have created a simple, online instrument using an internet survey tool. Thecurrent effort is to collect data from sections of ME 180 which do not have rapid prototypingincorporated into the class offering. This data will