Exploring / Creating Multimedia for Engineering Education

1. Exploring / Creating Multimedia for Engineering Education • Buff Furman, MAE • Ping Hsu, EE • Kurt McMullin, CE • Nikos J. Mourtos, MAE LP and ITL Fellowship “Champions” Symposium April 23, 1998

2. Exploring Multimedia in Engineering Education : Planning Phase • Research available courseware • Evaluate existing Multimedia • Create necessary infrastructure in the COE

3. Exploring Multimedia : Criteria for Evaluation • Cost ? • Availability (license required) ? • Hardware required ? • Download speed ? • Attractiveness ? • Navigation ? • Interaction w. learner ? • Graphics ? Sound ? Animation ? • Value added ?

4. Buff Furman Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering San Jose State University

5. Activities This Semester • Portable multimedia cart • Search for web-based courseware • Evaluation of courseware • ME Resources web-page

6. Portable Multimedia Cart • Self-contained, mobile multimedia unit • Any classroom, any time • Composition (for $12k): • Laptop computer • CD ROM and Ethernet PCMCIA card • Document camera • VCR • LCD projector • Mobile cart

7. Search for web-based courseware • Mostly lower division, core courses in ME • Statics, etc. • Some courses are making use of the web • Course information (syllabus, etc.) • Discussion groups • Mostly on-line “textbooks” or digitized lecture notes • Lots of text and equations, with some color and graphics • Little if any interactivity • Problem sets, sometimes with solutions • Ex. Univ. Wisconsin, Stout: Physics 372-325-01

8. Search for web-based courseware, cont. • Notable exceptions: • Johns Hopkins University • 520.214 Signals and Systems, Wilson J. Rugh • Web Lecture: Continuous-Time LTI Systems and Convolution • Multimedia • Interactive • Stanford University • ME 217 Design for Manufacturability, Kos Ishii • SITN’s Stanford On-Line • Video/Audio/Lecture notes of selected courses

9. Search for web-based courseware, cont. • Sites visited (partial list): • University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign • GE 103 Engineering Graphics and Design • Physics 101 • Physics 140 • ECE 311 • GE 222 • University of Wisconsin, Stout • Physics 372-325-01 • MIT • 2.007 Design and Manufacturing I • 2.670 Mechanical Engineering Tools

10. Search for web-based courseware, cont. • Sites visited (partial list), cont.: • University of Washington • Johns Hopkins University • Stanford University

11. Search for web-based courseware, cont. • Other Resources Investigated • NEEDS Database • SUCCEED Coalition June ‘97 CD • ECSEL Coalition • Apple Computer’s Educational Object Economy project • Applied Aerodynamics by Ilan Kroo

12. Evaluation of courseware • Criteria • Look and Feel • Attractive, interesting, conveys useful information? • Navigation • Easy to get around, can you tell where you are? • Multimedia • Use of multiple forms of media, e.g., text, graphics, audio, video? • Interactivity • Can I actively take part in the learning? • Information • Facilitation means

13. ME Resources Web Page • Web page for Mechanical Engineering Resources

14. Ping Hsu Department of Electrical Engineering San Jose State University

15. Activities This Semester • Took an on-line course offered by Vanderbilt Univ. • Generated a list of Electrical Engineering course Websites. • Will take an on-line course on “How to manage a Web conferencing system.”

16. Electrical Engineering Websites

17. Example of Sites Visited • CSU Sacramento: Circuits Analysis • Cal Poly Pomona: Circuits Analysis • John Hopkins Univ: Signals and Systems

18. Where is this all leading?

19. Media Use for Maximum Effectiveness

20. Kurt McMullin Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering San Jose State University

21. Objectives of Multimedia Project • Learn more about Multimedia use for education. • Develop a database for Internet sites for different Civil Engineering applications. • Evaluate sites for application in our curriculum, and identify areas which seem underdeveloped.

22. Personal Knowledge of MMedia • Starting from zero knowledge, I have increased to neophyte. • Have recognized several ways that this technology can be used in instruction.

23. Personal Knowledge • Have attended several of the instructional seminars here on campus. • Have explored much more of the web than before. • Have started using simple items, (mass Emailings, online presentations) in my classes this semester.

24. Developed an Excel Database for various sites that are related to Civil Engineering. Divided websites into the various categories of subjects in the department. Distributed the database to the other faculty of the department for their knowledge. Database of Websites

25. Evaluation of Websites • I looked at the sites that are related to my areas of teaching. • Available sites are limited, covering mostly the Green Sheet, course outline and such.

26. Evaluation (Continued) • I also had a Freshman student take time and evaluate various sites. • She wrote evaluations of courses that were applicable to her level of study (Intro to Chem, Phys, Math, etc.) along with evaluations of lower division engineering courses.

27. Evaluations (continued) • She found that engineering sites were very limited in scope or depth. • She found much more work had been done by groups in the preparatory courses.

28. Creating Multimedia for Engineering Education • Develop web pages for 4 engr. Courses • Create a library of video demos for each course • Assess technology-induced learning enhancements • Faculty development : seminars + coaching