Exploiting real-time 3d visualisation to enthuse students: a case study of using visual python in engineering

Authors:
Hans Fangohr
Affiliations:
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
Venue:
ICCS'06 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Computational Science - Volume Part II
Year:
2006

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Abstract

We describe our experience teaching programming and numerical methods to engineering students using Visual Python to exploit three dimensional real time visualisation. We describe the structure and content of this teaching module and evaluate the module after its delivery. We find that the students enjoy being able to visualise physical processes (even if these have effectively only 1 or 2 spatial degrees of freedom) and this improves the learning experience.