Cernusca, D., & Bham, G. H. (2012, June), Use of a Driving Simulator to Enhance Learning Experience of Undergraduates in Highway Design  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--22165

\bibitem{asee_peer_22165}
  Cernusca, D., \& Bham, G. H. (2012, June), \emph{Use of a Driving Simulator to Enhance Learning Experience of Undergraduates in Highway Design}
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--22165

Dan Cernusca and Ghulam H. Bham PhD.  "Use of a Driving Simulator to Enhance Learning Experience of Undergraduates in Highway Design".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/22165 Internet.  27 Feb, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_22165}
  Dan Cernusca and Ghulam H. Bham PhD.
  "Use of a Driving Simulator to Enhance Learning Experience of Undergraduates in Highway Design".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/22165 Internet.  27 Feb, 2025

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AB  -         USE OF A DRIVING SIMULATOR TO ENHANCE LEARNING          EXPERIENCE OF UNDERGRADUATES IN HIGHWAY                             DESIGN                                               ABSTRACT                                                ASEE 2012Academic research often creates high-end technology with specific research-related functions. Thistechnology typically provides tools for small groups of doctoral, master or senior undergraduate studentsengaged in research or experiential activities. However, it is rarely used as an instructional tool forclassroom-based activities especially of undergraduate students. This paper presents the first steps inintegrating a driving simulator in an introductory course in Transportation Engineering for civil engineersas a means to create a more stimulating context for learning highway design.Driving simulators are used generally for research in the area of human factors, to monitor driverbehavior, performance and attention in the automobile industry to design and evaluate new technologiessuch as new advanced driver assistance systems or traffic control devices in different environments. Asimulator's sophisticated computer programs can generate multiple driving scenarios populated with othervehicles. The driving simulator used in this study is capable of manipulating various geometric, control,traffic and environmental conditions such as horizontal and vertical alignment, types of roadway, trafficsignals, scenarios such as daytime versus nighttime, fog, as well as other factors in simulated driving.For this study, the driving simulator served initially as a mean to create a more realistic context forhighway design activities that were the focus of the introductory undergraduate TransportationEngineering course for civil engineers. The goal was to help civil engineer students to get a betterunderstanding of the potential impact of a good and bad highway design on drivers’ road experience andtherefore motivate them to engage in the highway design project. After the simulated drive through,students completed a questionnaire that surveyed their experience in terms of engagement, effectivenessand motivation generated by the use of this simulator.Based on students’ feedback from the first implementation, in a second implementation, students wereexposed to a simulated combination of good and bad vertical designs. The initial students’ exposure to thedriving simulator, similar to the one described above, was followed by a second use of the simulator afterthe students completed the vertical design of the highway. This second exposure served both as areflective phase of the design activity of the vertical alignment and as a feedback for the instructor on theeffectiveness of the design project on students’ learning of this phase of the highway design process. Toachieve this goal, the survey of students’ perceptions was completed with a set of questions (bothquantitative and qualitative) that asked students to evaluate the quality of the simulated curves and toexplain the differences they found between the good and bad design they were exposed to in the virtualenvironment. Students’ answers to the initial and consequent exposure to the simulated driving arepresented to both provide the support for the above-mentioned goals and to identify potential futureimprovements of this activity.
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