Despite these huge efforts in university teaching and learning, still the fact remains that in design education context students have difficulty in being motivated and self-directed in non-studio courses. Thus, the study analyzed the effectiveness of a blended learning to contribute design students’ engagement with non-studio courses. It also investigated how blended learning could develop a re...

Extensive use of standard SAS® Data Integration Studio Transformations is often made when designing data warehouses, thereby reducing maintenance requirements and the need for user defined code. This paper instead advocates using the SAS Data Integration Studio API against user defined code. Thus using the full power of SAS to build and maintain warehouse processes may yield several advantages,...

In this paper we provide an overview of IBM WebSphere Studio, a family of tools for developing distributed applications for J2EETM servers for state-of-the-art information technology systems. In today’s business environment such systems are complex, comprise multiple platforms, and make use of a wide range of technologies and standards. Through a representative development scenario we illustrat...

In the following, we describe our vision of a collaborative engineering environment, the Collaborative Design Studio, consider issues and questions relating to the effective design and evaluation of such systems, and describe proposed studies for evaluating and evolving the current environment. This work is being undertaken at the Geometric and Intelligent Computing Laboratory at Drexel Univers...

Web-based multimedia tutorials are being developed for use in several undergraduate courses in Electrical Engineering and Computer and Systems Engineering at Rensselaer. These interactive learning modules (ILMs) are created with the Director authoring environment and can be deployed using a standard Web browser with Macromedia's Shockwave plug-in as the interface. The ILMs can be used by facult...