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Teaching Product Design and Drawing History
accordance with the typology and functions of the helmet chosen by each team and
compared to similar existing products. Therefore, each project resulted in significant
different products concerning several markets in spite of the few same guiding indications
and workflow. By this teaching approach, it is possible to transmit course’s contents
through students’ direct experience and applying product design concepts and innovative
technologies on a specific case study. In this way, the final step of the paper is to compare
the different projects, and underline in each of them the workflow of each product design
and how each team developed the ideas of future engineers.
Keywords: Design Methods, Product Development, Concepts Generation, Rapid
Prototyping.
Corresponding Author: Francesca De Crescenzio
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e-mail: francesca.decrescenzio@unibo.it
Address: Università di Bologna, Seconda Facoltà di Ingegneria, via Fontanelle 40, 47121 Forlì (FC).
Designing an interactive web manager
applied to the development of spatial abilities
C. Melgosa (a), B. Ramos (a), E. Baños (a), E. García (a), A. Román (a)
(a) Universidad de Burgos, Escuela Politécnica Superior, Departamento de Expresión Gráfica (Spain)
Abstract:
The removal of contents (such as Descriptive Geometry) in the syllabi of graphic
expression subjects, partially in some cases and totally others, which had proved to
develop the spatial vision ability, have resulted in our students being lacking in this
capacity.
Despite efforts to reduce these gaps, like the introduction of computers in the learning
process, the authors of this paper believe that researching into tools helping to improve
students' spatial vision is needed.
That´s why we suggest the use of a learning/educational platform tailored to Graphic
Engineering, which manages and evaluates the learning process, taking into account the
development of capacity for spatial vision, from the earliest stages of this development
and in the most deprived pupils.
As a first step we have designed and developed an interactive open web manager of
learning in Graphic Engineering focused on developing the capacity for spatial vision for
components as well as its standard representation.
One aim of this paper is to describe this manager, whose main features are: three profiles
of access, a database to manage all the information, monitoring and evaluation of
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