Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sonya Bond Overstreet, EMH&T

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Engineering Design Graphics

Civil 3Dtechnical support system. Figure 1 shows a general timeline of the overall implementation plan. Page 25.540.3Figure 1 AutoCAD® Civil 3D® Implementation Timeline 2007 2008 2010 2011 2009 Initial Developed Complete Conduct Complete Investigation Corporate AutoCAD® AutoCAD® AutoCAD® of

Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Theodore J. Branoff, North Carolina State University; Modris Dobelis, Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

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Engineering Design Graphics

c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Engineering Graphics Literacy: Spatial Visualization Ability and Students’ Ability to Model Objects from Assembly Drawing InformationIntroductionEngineering drawings are still one of the main pieces of legal documentation for productdevelopment. Interpreting these drawings is a skill needed by engineers and technicians sincethese documents are the primary way design information is communicated to manufacturing andquality control. Post-secondary engineering programs, however, have reduced the amount ofinstructional time related to engineering graphics for various reasons 1-3. More emphasis has beenplaced on basic modeling strategies in CAD

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas Delahunty, University of Limerick; Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Raymond Lynch, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick

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Engineering Design Graphics

meaningand apply knowledge in a broad context is crucial within education 1 and it is the teacher'sresponsibility to facilitate this within the subject. This focus is difficult to embrace within thetraditional formal schooling structures. Students can often achieve quite well by traditionalassessment measures but often have difficulty when required to use this learned knowledge innew styles of problems 2. Often students pass through the entire schooling system, andperform quite well, but are unable to utilise this learned knowledge in broader contexts 3. It isfuture graphics educators that must establish the cultural norm. To do this an ability to applyand transfer knowledge from one context to another is crucial.With the objective of analysing the

Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Yaomin Dong, Kettering University

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Engineering Design Graphics

existingEngineering Graphics course have been made as lessons learned.1. IntroductionAs part of the professional development portion of the NSF – ENGAGE grant, the KetteringUniversity ENGAGE team attended the ENGAGE conference in February 2010. A Plan ofAttack in spatial visualization was developed. It includes five phases starting from Springsemester 2010. Currently at Kettering University, “Technical Graphical Communications(MECH-100)” is a core course for Mechanical Engineering (ME) students at freshman level. It isan elective course for students in other programs such as Industrial and ManufacturingEngineering (IME), Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECS), etc.According to the studies by Sorby [1, 2], well-developed spatial skills have been shown to

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Burke, University of Limerick

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Engineering Design Graphics

experienceexclusively in solid geometric modeling. Through the paradigm of Project Based Learning, ascaffolded approach encouraging student exploration and experimentation was employedacross the study. Page 25.26.2 Figure 1 - Parametric surface modeling Figure 2 - Freeform Polygonal modelingThe choice of software for each task was based on marketing material analysed from a rangeof software and claims on what they are designed to do, in addition to the researcher’sexperience having had success with both for similar design tasks. The parametric surfacemodeling program chosen for the study was SolidWorks 2011. For the

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Niall Seery, University of Limerick; Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; Donal Canty, University of Limerick

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

. Thestudy observes students development of a portfolio in response to a given design task. Theinitial group was required to produce their solutions in response to determined (see Table 1)assessment criteria (needs were determined by the teacher/expert), while the second groupwere required to solve the same brief by demonstrating their view of graphical capabilitywith no explicit outcomes defined (develop their own epistemological understanding). Fordescriptive purposes these groups were labeled as ‘Determinist’ and ‘Non-Determinist’.The off-set cohort analysis type study was utilized to compare work from the twoconsecutive year three groups. A stratified sample was employed within each group toensure that the variability within strata was minimized

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alice Y. Scales, North Carolina State University; Terri E. Varnado, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

active learningstrategies, processes, and procedures. In looking at the literature, limited information has beenfound on strategies to integrate active learning. The active learning strategies discussed willfocus mainly on course content that can be utilized in engineering/technical graphics courses inhigher education settings.Introduction“Schools exist to provide educational opportunities. Education should enable students to developmentally, physically, morally, and aesthetically through the "experienced" curriculum”1 [p. 650].Formal instruction has two primary objectives1. First, cognitive development provides long-termacquisition and retention of stable and organized extensive bodies of knowledge and meaning.Second, is the growth in the

Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeremy V. Ernst, Virginia Tech; Aaron C. Clark, North Carolina State University

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Engineering Design Graphics

does exist between the two instruments assessmentscores indicating that further research is needed for subgroup analysis. This led theresearchers to start exploring with subgroups an begin with one population that has little tono research about it at the post secondary level, at-risk populations and the potentialdifferentiation this population could have between the two assessment instruments beingused for both this study, and previous ones3.Research QuestionsThere were two research questions with a total of two subsequent investigational hypothesesproposed and researched in this study: 1) Are there identifiable differences or associations between introductory engineering graphics at-risk and not at-risk students’ mental rotation

Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Diarmaid Lane, University of Limerick; AJ Hamlin, Michigan Technological University; Norma L. Veurink, Michigan Technological University; Niall Seery, University of Limerick

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Engineering Design Graphics

Seery, University of Limerick Page 25.1340.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 The Role of Observational Sketching in Forming and Manipulating Graphical LibrariesThe ability to externalize libraries of visual mental imagery through freehand sketching is acomplex cognitive skill. Lane [1] devised and empirically validated a model of developmentalexercises which ranged along a continuum from observation to imagination. The purpose ofthe model was to promote freehand sketching as a sense making tool while developing theability to form, manipulate, synthesize

Conference Session

Assessment in Graphics Education

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mary A. Sadowski, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Judith A. Birchman, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Brandon Xavier Karcher, Purdue University

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Engineering Design Graphics

Page 25.1341.2at the costs and effectiveness of their recruiting efforts. The Web and social media offer a meansto reach out to prospective students that is both economical and current. Like many others, theCollege of Technology at Purdue University has embarked on creating a presence in the realm ofsocial media. Social media can be defined as “a group of internet-based applications that build onthe ideological and technological foundations of Web 2.0, and that allow the creation andexchange of User Generated Content.”1 Facebook and Twitter are two of the most prevalentsocial media outlets utilized by the College of Technology. This survey was used to gauge theawareness level of incoming students and determine the effectiveness of recruiting

Conference Session

Spatial Visualization

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sheryl A. Sorby, Ohio State University; Norma L. Veurink, Michigan Technological University

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Engineering Design Graphics

. In examining the additional data for 2010 and2011, it appears that the improvement might have “leveled off” somewhat. Table 1 includes the averagescores of students from 2006 through 2011. It is apparent from examination of the data in Table 1 thatthe trend for increasing scores may have stabilized. Further, it is assumed that if indeed the scores forstudents changed over time that they changed for all students—domestic, minority, and international— Page 25.1172.3equivalently. Table 1. Average PSVT:R Scores for all students 2006-2011Year Number of PSVT:R Scores