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Impact of World Wide Web, Java, and virtual environments on
education in computational science and engineering
Singh, T.
Zhu, M.
Thakkar, U.
Ravaioli, U.
Beckman Inst. for Adv. Sci. & Technol., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL;
This paper appears in: Frontiers in Education Conference, 1996. FIE '96. 26th Annual Conference., Proceedings of
11/06/1996
-11/09/1996, 6-9 Nov 1996
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
, USA
On page(s): 1007-1010 vol.3
Volume: 3,
6-9 Nov 1996
References Cited: 5
Number of Pages: 3 vol. xl+1517
INSPEC Accession Number: 5496661
Abstract:
The World Wide Web (WWW) on the Internet has been recognized as an
effective environment to create new distributed applications that have
the potential to bring instruction beyond the bounds of the classroom.
The availability of browsers (e.g. Mosaic, Netscape, Hot Java) has
enormously simplified the access to the WWW, and there have been
numerous initiatives to take advantage of this new technology for
teaching. This work will illustrate recent developments of tools for
engineering education and technology transfer which take advantage of
WWW browsers, Java applets, and virtual reality. We have developed
modules based on WWW browsers incorporating educational and research
software, including advanced visualization, which find use for
multimedia classroom presentations accessible by Internet users, and
which can also improve interaction among academic groups and industry.
Therefore, the material is suitable for asynchronous distance learning
and technology transfer. Examples of interactive WWW applications
include device simulation, semiconductor band structure calculation,
numerical techniques, and electromagnetics
Index Terms:
Internet
computer science education
engineering education
multimedia systems
technology transfer
virtual reality
Internet
Java
Mosaic
Netscape
World Wide Web
asynchronous distance learning
browsers
computational science education
device simulation
educational and research software
electromagnetics
engineering education
multimedia classroom presentations
numerical techniques
semiconductor band structure calculation
teaching
technology transfer
virtual environments
virtual reality
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