Conference Session

Engineering Design Graphics Division Technical Session 2: VR, AR, and CAD

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Katherine Levenick Shirey, EduKatey; Magesh Chandramouli, Purdue University Northwest

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

virtual reality, STEM education, Human Computer Interaction, and Genetic Algorithms in Graphics. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021 Pilot Study: Virtual Reality for Computational Thinking Foundations and STEM Enrichment (WIP)AbstractThis paper presents the pilot study of a web-based desktop virtual reality (VR) instructionalframework used to teach computational thinking (CT) concepts to secondary students. ClassroomCT instructional practices are vastly underexplored in research on adolescent beginningprogrammers. Training in computational thinking, requires a firm grasp of various componentsranging from fundamental