Multimedia for engineers

The challenges that currently face higher education in the UK and beyond are many and varied. Underpinning many of these is the daunting task of producing an increasingly skilled workforce, and doing so from a diminishing resource base. New ideas are required-new approaches, new methods and new techniques. Multimedia developments have a vital role to play. If properly designed they provide an ideal vehicle for student-centred activity. As much as any other subject, engineers and engineering can use the multimedia approach to learning. A few examples are given that show how. The development problems and evaluation of multimedia are also discussed