Spatial Visualization Ability and Students' Ability to Model Objects from Engineering Assembly Drawing Information

ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division 68th Mid-Year Conference. Web of Graphics 2013
Theodore J. Branoff, Modris Dobelis

During the Spring 2013 semester a study was conducted in a junior-level constraint-based solid modeling course at North Carolina State University to verify the results of a similar study conducted in the Fall of 2012 in the same course. Students were administered the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Visualization of Rotations (PSVT:R) and the Mental Cutting Test (MCT) and then were asked to model the parts from information given in an assembly drawing. Relationships were examined between the PSVT:R, MCT, modeling test, final project, and final exam. This paper will present the results of this study.

Keywords
CAD Modeling, Engineering Graphics Literacy, Spatial Visualization

Branoff, T., Dobelis, M. Spatial Visualization Ability and Students' Ability to Model Objects from Engineering Assembly Drawing Information. In: ASEE Engineering Design Graphics Division 68th Mid-Year Conference. Web of Graphics, United States of America, Worcester, MA, 20-22 October, 2013. Worcester: Purdue University, 2013, pp.9-14.

Publication language
English (en)