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Engineering Drawing as a Global Language for Engineers
... Engineering drawing is one of the fundamental skills needed by all engineers to be creative and productive in engineering profession. It offers a wide range of advantages such as effective and efficient communication among all professionals involved in design and production process, reduces lot of time, resources, labour and manufacturing errors, simplify design and production process of complex structures and help to check design defects (Kosse, 2005;Rio et al., 2006;Narayana et al., 2006;Kabouridis, 2010;Igbinomwanhia & Aliu, 2013). Errors made in an attempt to interpret engineering documentation could pose some exigent catastrophe to the whole essence of design and production processes (Kosse, 2005). ...
... It offers a wide range of advantages such as effective and efficient communication among all professionals involved in design and production process, reduces lot of time, resources, labour and manufacturing errors, simplify design and production process of complex structures and help to check design defects (Kosse, 2005;Rio et al., 2006;Narayana et al., 2006;Kabouridis, 2010;Igbinomwanhia & Aliu, 2013). Errors made in an attempt to interpret engineering documentation could pose some exigent catastrophe to the whole essence of design and production processes (Kosse, 2005). Kosse and Senadeera (2011) reported a case where misinterpreted information due to lack of engineering drawing knowledge hampered a fault resolving process. ...
... Igbinomwanhia and Aliu (2013) showed that there is drastic decline in performance level of Nigerian engineering students in engineering drawing. Predominant challenges engineering students encounter in engineering drawing are difficulties to see an image in 3-dimension, understanding of projection view methodology, producing drawings of professional quality, and reading and interpreting engineering drawings (Kosse, 2005;Akasah & Alias, 2010;Rio et al., 2006;Jayasree, 2003). Varied factors that lead to the challenges students encounter in engineering drawing found in literatures includes teaching approach, instructional and educational items, acquisition of the fundamental knowledge of the subject in secondary education, the learning atmosphere and time allocated for the subject (Olkun, 2003;Igbinomwanhia & Aliu, 2013;Diraso 2013). ...
The effects of attitude as it relates to engineering students' learning in engineering drawing was looked into in this study. All the engineering students from the four engineering departments of Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta, Nigeria were considered as the study population. However the participants were a total of 152 engineering students. The research instrument was a pre-tested self-administered questionnaire. The questionnaire was structured using close-ended Likert 5-point attitude scale format for it's relatively easy to design, high degree of reliability and validity in using Likert technique. The data obtained was analysed using frequency, percentage, mean score and standard deviation techniques on Standard Package for Social Scientists (SPSS) 16.0, software. The analysed data showed that the students have positive attitude to engineering drawing as a subject and teaching methodology. They were unsure about classroom environment and background information but obviously negative about the instructional and educational items.
... Conventional instruction methods of teaching ED require students to learn the ED course for a semester-long duration and involve them in doing the practice of sketching and drawing for longer durations. Such teaching techniques assist the learning of a subject but do not guarantee the elimination of the learning difficulties entirely (Akasah and Alias 2010;Kosse 2005). In modern instruction methods, instructors make use of software tools such as Computer-Aided Design (CAD), multimedia tutors, animations, and web-based instructions as a supplementary visual aid in learning (Branoff and Mapson 2009;Cincou 2013;Froese et al. 2013;Wu and Chiang 2013). ...
... Mental rotation includes visualisation of a 3D object which is complex. Therefore, performing the transformations between 2D projections and 3D views of objects becomes difficult (Akasah and Alias 2010;Jiannan 1998;Kosse 2005). Instructors also find it challenging to explain the 3D concepts of orthographic and isometric views (Khabia and Khabia 2012;Sutton, Heathcote, and Bore 2005;Upadhye, Shaikh, and Yalsangikar 2013). ...
Engineering Drawing (ED) is one of the fundamental courses for various engineering disciplines. However, first-year engineering undergraduates often face difficulties in learning and solving ED problems that require visualisation of 3D objects. Conventional and modern teaching methods do assist the teaching-learning of a subject but do not guarantee the elimination of the learning difficulties, specifically related to visualising spatial relationships. Mental rotation (MR) skills play a major role in learning such concepts, and students should be trained for the execution of MR processes. This paper presents a 3D visualisation tool-based training programme where students practice MR processes. The training guides students through hands-on tasks, coupled with the cognitive steps of MR. We investigate the effect of the training on improving 253 engineering undergraduates’ ED problem-solving performance by administering a pipeline of four research studies. Results show that the training successfully helps students in enhancing their ED problem-solving performance.
... Technical drawings are the most common form of formalized component description in engineering and a central element in the development of mechanical components (Garland et al., 2017;Sampaio, 2018). They serve as an important means of communication between different disciplines and groups of people within organizations (Lille, 2013;Barr, 2004;Kosse, 2005). Despite the progress of digitization and the widespread use of virtual CAD data in mechanical engineering, technical drawings are still widely used in industry (Moreno-García et al., 2019). ...
In design education, technical drawing training requires a large amount of resources. The aim of this paper is to propose a concept for an artificial intelligence-based tutoring system that partly automates technical drawing education. The educational needs of the students are defined via an error analysis of 100 corrected drawing exercises and the definition of 3 error clusters with 134 different error types. Three sub-concepts with a collection of training exercises are proposed for the tutoring system to mitigate these errors. The resulting concept is validated by a survey with 29 students.
Augmented reality (AR) has been used in education especially in the process of teaching and
learning. Many courses including engineering drawing has implemented this technology in order
to enhance students’ learning experiences as well as to maximize the transfer of knowledge.
Thus, the purpose of this paper is to review recent research on the application of augmented
reality in engineering drawing classrooms. In order to achieve the purpose of this paper, various
electronic databases were used to find articles published between 2000 and 2016. Few combinations
of keywords were used to search related articles such as augmented reality, engineering drawing,
engineering education and teaching approach. Findings from the review showed that the use of
augmented reality can enhance learning experiences and improve students’ skills when dealing
with complex concepts in engineering drawing. Various researchers have produced augmented
reality teaching aids to support the teaching and learning process of engineering drawing.
Consequently, as more research is done on the technology of augmented reality, the findings will
definitely make engineering drawing classrooms more effective. Thus, the teaching aids developed
from the research will increase the standard of teaching and learning and this process will benefit
both educators and students.
Augmented reality (AR) has been used in education especially in the process of teaching and learning. Many courses including engineering drawing has implemented this technology in order to enhance students' learning experiences as well as to maximize the transfer of knowledge. Thus, the purpose of this paper is to review recent research on the application of augmented reality in engineering drawing classrooms. In order to achieve the purpose of this paper, various electronic databases were used to find articles published between 2000 and 2016. Few combinations of keywords were used to search related articles such as augmented reality, engineering drawing, engineering education and teaching approach. Findings from the review showed that the use of augmented reality can enhance learning experiences and improve students' skills when dealing with complex concepts in engineering drawing. Various researchers have produced augmented reality teaching AIDS to support the teaching and learning process of engineering drawing. Consequently, as more research is done on the technology of augmented reality, the findings will definitely make engineering drawing classrooms more effective. Thus, the teaching AIDS developed from the research will increase the standard of teaching and learning and this process will benefit both educators and students.
First year undergraduate students in engineering often face difficulties in solving engineering drawing (ED) problems. The potential reasons for this could be either the students' deficiency in visualizing spatial relationships or the instructional method used. We have developed a three-hour MR training using Blender 3D, an open source 3D animation software. In this paper, we present experimental evidence of the effect of our training on the improvement of problem solving skills in ED. We analyzed the results and found them to be significant. Also, the qualitative analysis of students' responses to the open ended questions revealed that, they found training useful in resolving their difficulties in solving ED problems.
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