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Can Virtual Reality Enhance User Performance and Experience by Reducing an Individual's Cognitive Workload?
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Devine, Kevin; Chang, Yi-hsiang Isaac; Klitzing, Gunnar – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2019
Recent developments in Virtual Reality (VR) technology has prompted the manufacturing industry and software vendors to investigate VR's potential for process enhancement. In this paper, we present a study to investigate whether using VR could reduce an individual's cognitive workload during the process of programming an industrial robot. The…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Programming
Dimensional Tolerances: Back to the Basics
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Devine, K. L. – Engineering Design Graphics Journal, 2012
Students often have difficulty grasping the principles of dimensional tolerances and frequently fail to recognize that dimensioning practice has a significant impact on the tolerance of part features. This observation may be attributed to several factors, not the least of which are changes in prior student education and life experiences and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Experiential Learning, Group Activities
Capability of the University of Missouri for Public Technology Service.
Babcock, Daniel L.; Eppelsheimer, Daniel S. – 1974
Public Technology has been defined as a technology "explicitly responsive to the policy goals and operational requirements of civil governments." The Council of State Governments found in a recent study that "state universities have a major potential to bring applied science to the service of state governments, and that this…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Civil Engineering, Engineering Technology, Extension Education
Engineering and Technology Degrees, 1980. Part I - By School. Summary Data by School, Curriculum Group, and Degree Level.
Howley, Barbara Ann; Bonadonna, Rosanna – 1980
Data on 1980 engineering and technology degrees by schools, curriculum group, and degree level are presented. Degree data for each school are arranged in tabular form with columns for the 21 most prominent curriculum groups, totals for the school, and information on each school's accreditation and control status. There are separate tables for each…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Associate Degrees, Bachelors Degrees, College Curriculum
Engineering and Technology Degrees, 1980. Part II - By Minorities. Detailed Data for Minority Groups, Women, and Foreign Students.
Howley, Barbara Ann; Bonadonna, Rosanna – 1980
Data on 1980 engineering and technology degree graduates are presented for six categories of students. Tables appear for each of the following: women, foreign nationals, blacks, Hispanics, American Indians, and Asian/Pacific groups. Data are presented for four degree levels in engineering, four in engineering technology, and four in industrial…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), American Indians, Asian Americans, Associate Degrees
Engineering and Technology Degrees, 1980. Part III - By Curriculum. Detailed Data by Curriculum Title and Accreditation.
Howley, Barbara Ann; Bonadonna, Rosanna – 1980
Data on 1980 engineering and technology degree graduates are presented by curriculum and accreditation status. Each of 29 different engineering or technology curricula groups is listed in order, giving the schools offering such programs, number of degrees awarded at each level, and the number received by six special categories of students; i.e.,…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), American Indians, Asian Americans, Associate Degrees