Visualization and Animation in Civil Engineering
Abstract
Building 17, Room 1671 at California State Polytechnic University Pomona, an 1800 sq ft. laboratory, houses the 25 Dell 530 workstations acquired. Each computer is equipped with a stereographic emitter, a trackball and a Wildcat 5110 video card to perform softcopy photogrammetry, stereo visualization, and animation. The civil engineering curriculum has been modified to include visualization and animation concepts into lower and upper division courses. Rhino-3D, a simple 3d modeling tool, was added to the freshman CAD class. The resources leveraged from this grant, more than $7 million, allowed the curriculum to be modified. A new course CE 420 Digital Mapping was added to the curriculum This new course focuses on 3D data collection, modeling, visualization and animation. In the one year performance period, approximately 120 freshman and 50 senior students from under represented groups have been exposed to visualization and animation concepts. The total number of students exposed to these concepts is approximately 270. As the project develops and grows, it is anticipated that more than one thousand students will be exposed, through course expansion, faculty workshops, and high school visits in this state-of-the-art laboratory. state-of-the-art laboratory.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 12, 2002
- Accession Number
- ADA409376
Entities
People
- Edward Hohmann
- Francelina A. Neto
- Howard Turner
Organizations
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona