Development of a computer‐aided educational tool incorporating MATLAB for engineering measurements

This paper presents an educational software focused on teaching the design process of water distribution networks to Municipal Engineering students and Environmental Engineering students. This software has been developed using Delphi 7.0. And it is divided into four sections: (1) interactive drawing tools for developing the topology model of a water distribution network, (2) effective management of different kinds of data related to water distribution networks, (3) hydraulic analysis for designing a water distribution system in operational conditions when varying the parameter values, and (4) AutoCAD interface files produced to help students draw the design scheme. This software has become a very useful tool for undergraduate students in compliment to the theoretical classes or alone, as a self‐study tool. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 24:615–628, 2016; View this article online at http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Interactive educational software for teaching water distribution networks design

Zhang

Cheng

2016

“…In Gao and Wang 2 the process of constructing virtual hydraulic circuits by Flash is demonstrated in detail. Tan and Fok 3 present a development tool including a multimedia package that helps students in the learning of engineering measurements. The directional information display mode has become a popular mode.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Development of a virtual winder for computer‐aided education using Virtools

Liu

Jiang

2011

Since operation of virtual winder can relieve the problem of lack of experiment on real equipments, virtual winder can be valuable complements to physical winder operation experiment. Virtools is the most widely used software for creating 3D VR environment. In this article, using Virtools to construct a virtual winder is demonstrated in detail by dividing the whole process into five steps: (1) creates 3D winder models in 3ds Max; (2) exports the models to Virtools format using Expert plugins (3ds Max Exporter); (3) designs scenes including cameras and lighters; (4) constructs the virtual winder including Behavior Building Block (BB), Scripts, and Virtools Scripting Language (VSL); (5) synthesizes and exports interactive coursewares of the virtual winder. The considerations and discussions in this article may be useful for building system of virtual education equipment in other subject areas. ß

“…Lado et al 8 developed a GUI for educational purposes, encapsulating Matlab, and obtained encouraging results. Tan and Fok 9 developed a multimedia package to help students in the learning of engineering measurements. Cathey 10 presented a Matlab‐based program for generating plots for an amortization study of the cost of adjustable speed drives of three‐phase induction motors.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Visual Wavelet‐Lab: An object‐oriented library and a GUI application for the study of the wavelet transform

Roselló

Dacosta

Lado

et al. 2011

ABSTRACT:In this work, we present Visual Wavelet-Lab, a software application that offers object-oriented library and a graphical user interface (GUI) to learn and apply wavelet transforms to one-and two-dimensional signals. The solution described is based on encapsulating and reusing the proprietary environment Matlab and the corresponding Wavelet Toolbox. This will allow for developing custom user applications, with well-defined and specific characteristics, aimed at learning the wavelet transform and applications. Since functionality is reused, and therefore it has not to be implemented, we gain the possibility to build in powerful and ad hoc tools for teaching and investigating, in a short term and at low costs. The application developed was presented to several users and evaluated in terms of usability. The results obtained are encouraging and indicate that using Visual Wavelet-Lab can be a useful tool for educational purposes. ß