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 motivated students. The program consists of seven subjects which engineering students often have difficulty with even after completing their undergraduate studies. These subjects are: bearings, drawing and drafting, mounting of shaft...

I present a novel drawing system for composing and rendering perspective scenes. The proposed approach uses a projective two-dimensional representation for primitives rather than a conventional three-dimensional description. This representation is based on points that lie on the surface of a unit sphere centered at the viewpoint. It allows drawings to be composed with the same ease as tradition...

"Supersti+Tech" is a compound word of "Superstition" and "Technology". The purpose of this project is to reinterpret superstition with new media devices through which juxtaposes and combines various paradoxical concepts such as irrational versus rational, fiction versus fact, and virtual versus real. The outcome of this project displays three interactive installations which use computer process...

The CAD technology of computer drawing software has powerful ability. When it is applied to civil engineering, will meet the ability different complexity in design process, achieve a variety graphics format effective conversion. platform compatibility strong, can be systems for drawing, cross-media, cross-platform application. Therefore, process improving efficiency engineering an all-round way...

I n this paper, we present a human-like nonphotorealistic rendering approach. A typical pi-ocess of’ how human engineers learn to paint technical illirsfration is as follows: At first 1he.v are trained on how to paint separate primitives such as cubes and spheres, and accordingly acciimirlate the empirical drawing principles arid skills during their continuous practices, and finally they can fi...

Unlike many other subjects in engineering such as statics, dynamics, or strength of materials, engineering graphics instruction has changed significantly over the past century. The primary reason for this change is the development of new graphical tools and methods at an increasingly rapid pace. In light of this, it is important that graphics educators keep sight of the fundamentals in graphics...

Graph drawing algorithms have important practical applications, e. g. layer-based algorithms for data flow diagram layout in embedded software design and planarization-based algorithms to layout UML diagrams in software engineering. Most current drawing methods focus on the optimization of aesthetic criteria such as the number of edge crossings and bends. The aspects of compactness and aspect r...

A private college in Hainan Province is exemplified to introduce the construction logic of school’s civil engineering group who offered basic courses “Architectural Drawing Recognition and Construction” “Engineering Drawing”. The veterans are faced with dual pressure both work study, how get pass “1+X”construction drawing examination a difficult problem for majority educators. Due limited offli...

To what extent have Iraqi engineering research emphases changed over the past fifteen years or so? Exploration of Iraqi publication patterns shows a dramatic rise in activity through 1990, followed by a precipitous decline through early 2003. Iraqi engineering research emphases include chemistry and chemical engineering, information technology, applied math and simulation, applied physics, and ...