Our university has developed a completed Multimedia CAI system of Engineering Drawing. It is available to all students of Engineering Specialties. This education software has been developed by the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics led by Prof. Zongyi ZUO. During the process of developing the system especially the software, students played a great part in it. This paper introduces ...

For this thesis, I refined and tested a computer-based engineering teaching tool called EDICS. EDICS (Engineering Design Instructional Computer Program) has proven to be a fun and intriguing means of conveying a wide variety of engineering design subjects to undergraduate students. The core audience of EDICS was assumed to be undergraduate engineering students who lacked the practical experienc...

This study compares an interactive learning manager for graphic engineering to develop spatial vision (ILMAGE_SV) to traditional methods. ILMAGE_SV is an asynchronous web-based learning tool that allows the manipulation of objects with a 3D viewer, self-evaluation, and continuous assessment. In addition, student learning may be monitored, which saves a significant amount of time for the teacher...

This paper arises from our concern for the level of teaching of engineering drawing at tertiary institutions in Australia. Little attention is paid to teaching hand drawing and tolerancing. Teaching of engineering drawing is usually limited to Computer-Aided Design (CAD) using AutoCAD or one of the solid modelling packages. As a result, many engineering graduates have difficulties in understand...

Tables are compact and efficient to list or represent complex objects. Due to differences between tables in engineering drawings and other documents, series of new problems need to be considered. In this paper, we propose new methods to analyze drawing layout and extract physical structure/logical structure from a given engineering drawing, then normalize the recognized ET and finally integrate...

Among the different aspects of converting an engineering drawing to CAD, 3-D reconstruction from several views has only been dealt with from a geometric perspective, although a lot of information is of symbolic nature and can be recognized as such directly on a single view. In this paper, we present a first prototype of a system combining geometric reconstruction through the “fleshing out proje...

This paper focuses upon the development of a multimedia toolkit to support the teaching of Engineering Graphics Course. The project used different elements for the toolkit; animations, videos and presentations which were then integrated in a dedicated internet website. The purpose of using these elements is to assist the students building and practicing the needed engineering skills at their ow...