Collaborative Research: Fostering Engineering Creativity and Communication through Immediate, Personalized Feedback on 2D-Perspective Drawing

协作研究：通过对 2D 透视绘图的即时、个性化反馈来培养工程创造力和沟通

• 批准号: 2013504
• 负责人: Julie Linsey
• 金额: $ 43.17万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2013504&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Fostering; Engineering; Creativity

This project aims to serve the national interest in excellent undergraduate engineering education by improving students’ ability to draw representations of structures and systems. Free-hand drawing is a crucial skill across engineering, especially for its ability to reduce complex systems to simplified, accurate diagrams. Such diagrams aid in idea generation, visualization of systems, and discussions between clients and engineers. When coupled with appropriate timely feedback, drawing can also be an effective learning tool for improving students’ visual communication skills and creativity. This project will use a computer application called SketchTivity to teach engineering students how to draw, and examine the impact of drawing instruction on student learning. SketchTivity is an intelligent tutoring system that provides real-time feedback on 2D drawings that students make on a screen instead of on paper. The application, which was developed by the research team, provides each student with iterative, real-time, personalized feedback on the drawing, promoting improvements and facilitating learning. Free-hand drawing and its associated benefits were inadvertently removed from the engineering curricula when educators transitioned from hand drafting to Computer-Aided-Design. This transition has resulted in the lack of student and faculty proficiency in freehand drawing. This project will support restoration of 2D-perspective drawing to engineering curricula. Since drawing is a skill that is also relevant to other STEM fields, this work is likely to have broad relevance in undergraduate STEM education.The project will enable the distribution of SketchTivity software to approximately 5,000 diverse undergraduate and graduate students at four partnering institutions. These students include a large percentage of women and students from other groups that are not equitably represented in STEM fields. The project has the potential to produce significant new knowledge about drawing-based artificial intelligence (AI) tools. It can also increase understanding about the effects of feedback and reflective prompts on drawing skills, and on learning and creativity. The project will compare AI-based assessments to assessments conducted by humans, thus providing additional information about development of intelligent tutoring systems. The impact of drawing ability on students’ creativity and spatial reasoning skills will be investigated, along with the transferability of drawing skills to other courses in engineering. A mixed-methods approach that includes surveys, validated assessments for engineering design creativity, and drawing quizzes, is proposed to assess project outcomes. The NSF IUSE: EHR Program supports research and development projects to improve the effectiveness of STEM education for all students. Through the Engaged Student Learning track, the program supports the creation, exploration, and implementation of promising practices and tools.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目的目的是在最杰出的结构和系统中发挥作用。学习工具改善了学生的视觉沟通技巧和创造力。是由研究团队开发的，它提供了迭代，实时的，个性化的反馈，促进NTS和促进学习范围导致缺乏学生和教职员工的绘图。在四个伙伴中，大约有5000种不同的地下学生和研究生。理解反馈和反思的影响，并在人类开发智能辅导系统中对基于AI的评估进行了学习和创造力。技能将是绘画技能的转移，并在工程学上进行了测验，以评估NSF IUSE的项目。学生。

项目成果

Sketchtivity, an intelligent sketch tutoring software: Broadening applications and impact

Sketchtivity，一款智能素描辅导软件：扩大应用范围和影响

• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
• 作者: Merzdorf, H. E.;Jaison, D.;Ray, S.;Weaver, M.;Douglas, K. A.;Li, W.;Viswanathan, V.;Krishnamurthy, V.;Linsey, J.;Hammond, T.
• 通讯作者: Hammond, T.

Sketching Assessment in Engineering Education: A Systematic Literature Review

工程教育中的草图评估：系统文献综述

• DOI: 10.1109/fie49875.2021.9637338
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 2021 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE
• 作者: Merzdorf, Hillary E.;Weaver, Morgan;Jaison, Donna;Hammond, Tracy;Linsey, Julie;Douglas, Kerrie A.
• 通讯作者: Douglas, Kerrie A.

Improving Engineering Sketching Education Through Perspective Techniques and an AI-Based Tutoring Platform

通过透视技术和基于人工智能的辅导平台改善工程草图教育

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: IJEE International Journal of Engineering Education
• 作者: Weaver, M. B.;Ray, S.;Hilton, E. C.;Dorozhkin, D.;Douglas, K.;Hammond, T.;Linsey, J.
• 通讯作者: Linsey, J.

WIP Teaching Engineers to Sketch: Impacts of Feedback from an Intelligent Tutoring Software on Engineers’ Sketching Skill Development

WIP 教授工程师素描：智能辅导软件反馈对工程师素描技能发展的影响

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE
• 作者: Jaison, D.;Weaver, M. B.;Ray, S.;Merzdorf, H. E.;Douglas, K. A.;Krishnamurthy, V.;Linsey, J.;Watson, K.;Hammond, T.
• 通讯作者: Hammond, T.

Work In Progress: An Object Assembly Test of Sketching in Undergraduate Engineering

正在进行的工作：本科工程草图的对象组装测试

• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: 2022 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference
• 作者: Merzdorf, H. E.;Jaison, D.;Weaver, M. B.;Linsey, J.;Hammond, T.;Douglas, K. A.
• 通讯作者: Douglas, K. A.