Principal Investigator
Dr. Mathias Kolle, Mechanical Engineering; Sara Nagelberg, Mechanical Engineering; Sean Cormier, Mechanical Engineering; Dr. Barbara Hughey, Mechanical Engineering; Prof. Ian Hunter, Mechanical Engineering
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2016
Department/Lab/Center:
Mechanical Engineering
Tailored graphical visualizations and animations play an important role in communicating scientific concepts efficiently to students. They spice up what can otherwis be a dry delivery of important theoretical concepts and therefore make education more memorable and create more profound skillsets in our students. The enhancement of course material in 2.671, a core undergraduate class on Measurements and Instrumentation, with graphical and interactive content through the use of the free open-‐soure 3D animation suite Blender, integrated with Phyton’ SciPy scientific computing environment, will enrich our students’ learning experience and provide a precedence and toolkit for implementing new interactive, virtual environments in scientific tteaching scenarios.