A kinematically intelligent blackboard for computer aided instruction

Author

Nisbett, J. Keith ; Barker, Clark R. ; Watkins, Derek

Author_Institution

Missouri Univ., Roola, MO, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

6-9 Nov 1993

Firstpage

76

Lastpage

80

Abstract

A CAI (computer-aided instruction) package is being developed to be used as a classroom tool for the instruction of undergraduate mechanical engineering students in an introductory kinematics of mechanisms course. This graphical environment allows the instructor to emulate on the projected graphics screen everything that is currently done on the blackboard for planar mechansims. Unlike the blackboard, the software will have the intelligence to interpret the drawings in a kinematic sense so that the drawing of the linkage will behave as a linkage. The software environment involves three principal components: (1) a sketching method for defining the linkage, (2) the "kinematic intelligence" to interpret the sketch and animate the linkage, and (3) the ability to develop and demonstrate kinematic concepts

Keywords

computer aided instruction; computer graphics; educational courses; intelligent tutoring systems; kinematics; mechanical engineering; mechanical engineering computing; CAI package; computer aided instruction; educational course; graphical environment; kinematic intelligence; kinematically intelligent blackboard; kinematics course; linkage; planar mechansims; projected graphics screen; sketching method; software environment; undergraduate mechanical engineering students; Analytical models; Computational modeling; Computer aided instruction; Computer simulation; Couplings; Education; Fluid dynamics; Kinematics; Packaging; Visualization;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Frontiers in Education Conference, 1993. Twenty-Third Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology', Proceedings.

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

ISSN

0190-5848

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1482-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/FIE.1993.405564

Filename

405564