Engineering Design Graphic Journal (ASEE - American Society for Engineering Education)
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Message from the Editor
No full textAs has been seen in previous issues, these current articles show a diversity of ideas and approaches to engineering design graphics. Rodriguez's article demonstrates how 3-D computer graphics techniques can be applied to helping solve difficult real-world civil engineering problems. At the other end of spectrum, Sadowski's article looks at how our understanding of learning styles can be used to inform graphics instructional practices. Finally, Clark & Scales also use survey methods to look at changes in the content of graphics education courses over the five years since they last reported on this topic. All three articles confirm that graphics education will continue to have an exciting and ever-evolving future. This is my last issue as editor of the Journal. I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of my associate editors, especially our new Division president, Ted Branoff, who put in at least as much work as I did managing the review process for the Journal. Bethany Smith and Nayo C-G Mack also put in long hours designing covers and laying out the issues. I also want to thank the circulation management duo of Clyde Kearns and Kathryn Holliday-Darr for continuing to make sure that everyone that was supposed to get a copy of Journal did. Finally, I'd like to thank the editorial review board for continuing to work with Ted and I on making sure we had the highest quality articles for publication
Message from the Editor - What's Next
No full textNow that the online-only Engineering Design Graphics Journal is a reality, what’s next? First, an ad-hoc Engineering Design Graphics Journal Advisory Board has been formed to provide the Journal with input from academic, business, government, and industry experts. Past editors of the Journal, who are still active with the Engineering Design Graphics Division, comprise the charter Board—Judy Birchman, Jon Duff, La Verne Abe Harris, Mary Sadowski, and Eric Wiebe. Jon Duff is serving as its chair. The Advisory Board functions in an advisory capacity and organizes and administers itself as it sees fit to fulfill its mission. Advice provided can range from the very esoteric to the very technical. The Board’s suggested mission is to provide (1) the Journal with direction from those who deal with the subject matter published and (2) a voice for academia, business, government, and industry to ensure the direction of the Journal is in the best interests of the Journal and its readers. Key is ensuring we maintain a certain level of quality and make relevant incremental improvements. It is my belief that such an Advisory Board will help produce a better editorial product, which will benefit those it is intended to serve. Second, our Associate Editor, Nancy Study, recently received an inquiry from an author on whether in effect the Journal is indexed by Thomson Reuter’s Journal Citation Reports. It seems the author’s concern was whether standard performance measures were available for the Journal. The matter of the Journal’s performance has been the topic of numerous conversations. Nancy has suggested we consider having the Journal indexed by the likes of Thomson Reuter’s Journal Citation Reports in order to take advantage of the information available and to improve the visibility of the Journal. This will probably be a topic for the Engineering Design Graphics Division’s Executive Committee to consider in June. If this is a matter of concern and is a priority to you, let us know. Third, Cody Skidmore, an East Carolina University graduate assistant and the Journal’s Web Production Manager, graduated this past December. He’s now a staff member with The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. Cody was instrumental in launching the online-only Engineering Design Graphics Journal. He is already sorely missed. However, he has agreed to continue assisting with the production of the Journal by assembling the various components that make up the Journal. Finally, and we need your help with this; consider publishing the results of your research and other creative activities with us. The process is fairly straight forward. Prepare your manuscript electronically in accordance with the current edition of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (the Manual)—see also http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/560/01/. Then submit your manuscript, along with an abstract, figures, tables, and the like, as an attachment to Nancy Study, the Journal’s Associate Editor at [email protected]. To ensure our articles are clear and consistent from article to article, issue to issue, and volume to volume, authors are asked to comply with the guidance provided by the Manual. The guidance addresses matters of the consistent use of punctuation and abbreviations, construction of tables, selection of headings, citation of references, table and figure titles, and quotations to name a few. In addition, the following must be considered when preparing a manuscript for publication in the Engineering Design Graphics Journal: typeface and size, line-spacing, margins, order of manuscript pages, page number and page headers, corrections, paragraphs and indentations, use of uppercase and lowercase letters, headings, spacing and punctuation, seriation, quotations, and statistical and mathematical symbology. Guidance for preparation of the following is also provided by the Manual: title page; abstract; text; references; appendices; footnotes and notes; tables and table titles, notes, and rules; figures and figure captions; spell checking; and the cover letter. Help the Journal’s staff to improve the production of our flagship publication—the Engineering Design Graphics Journal
Improving Spatial Ability with Mentored Sketching
Get PDFAs the result of a qualitative investigation into spatial ability, a teaching technique called mentored sketching was found to be effective for teaching visualization skills to freshman engineering students. This contribution describes the technique, how it evolved, and comments made by students as to its effectiveness. While mentored sketching emerged as a novel approach for the advancement of student sketching and spatial ability skills, it appears unhindered by class size and provides few constraints as a teaching methodology
Utilizing Rapid Prototyping for Architectural Modeling
Get PDFThis paper will discuss our approach to, success with and future direction in rapid prototyping for architectural modeling. The premise that this emerging technology has broad and exciting applications in the building design and construction industry will be supported by visual and physical evidence. This evidence will be presented in the form of photographs, video recordings and several models of student projects. Our approach to the future of this technology is discussed without a definitive conclusion, as despite our successes we remain in an exploratory mode regarding software, equipment and industry adoption
Sketching in Design Journals: an Analysis of Visual Representations in the Product Design Process
Get PDFThis paper explores the sketching behavior of designers and the role of sketching in the design process. Observations from a descriptive study of sketches provided in design journals, characterized by a protocol measuring sketching activities, are presented. A distinction is made between journals that are entirely tangible and those that contain some digitally-produced content (“hybrid journals”). The trend between 2004 and 2006 is an increase in both the average number of sketches as well as in the percentage of 3D sketches for hybrid journals. In 2004, tangible journals exhibited a higher average number of sketches over hybrid journals in the user needs and conceptual design stages, but this trend reversed in 2006 where hybrid journals favored more sketches at all design stages. Text was the predominant form of annotation used (ranging from 62-98%), as opposed to dimensions or calculations for both journal types. The industrial design students had significantly more sketches overall and a higher percentage of 3D sketches. They also tended to annotate more in hybrid journals over tangible journals
Online Working Drawing Review and Assessment
Get PDFThis paper describes the development and implementation of an online working drawing review video and online assessment tool. Particular attention was paid to dimensioning and ASME ANSI Y14 standards with the goal of improving the quality of the working drawings required in final design project reports. All members of freshmen design teams in the fall 2008 semester were required to watch this video and pass an online assessment before they could turn in their final design project reports. The School of Engineering maintained scanned copies of design project reports for the fall 2006 and 2007 semesters. A separate working drawing assessment rubric was developed and used to evaluate the working drawings for these semesters so that a comparison could be made with the project working drawings submitted for the fall 2008 semester. The working drawing review videos and the online assessment tool are available on request for Engineering Design Graphics (EDG) faculty members
Using Pair Programming to Teach CAD Based Engineering Graphics
Get PDFPair programming was introduced into a course in engineering graphics that emphasizes solid modeling using Solid-Works. In pair programming, two students work at a single computer, and periodically trade off roles as driver (hands on the keyboard and mouse) and navigator (discuss strategy and design issues). Pair programming was used in a design project, and in a subsequent year in a design project and several smaller special projects. Student outcomes for two years were compared with a previous year in which pair programming was not used. Improvements were seen in design project scores, overall course scores, and project submission rates. The course is normally taken by first year students during the spring semester. Retention into the sophomore year was also higher for students participating in pair programming