Teaching Design of Building Structures Using Visualization and Animation Techniques

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Teaching Design of Building Structures Using
Visualization and AnimationTechniques

• Mohamed A. El-Gafy
• Department of Technology

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!!! Thanks !!!

• This Project was funded by the CTLT
  Teaching-Learning Development Grant
• Special Thanks to
• Dr. Patrick O'Sullivan
• Beth Welch

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Presentation Outline

• Research Initiatives Problem Statement
• Literature Review
• What did I do?
• Results How did I use it?
• How Can you use it?
• Conclusion

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Problem Statement

• Understanding structures design in construction
  management education.
• The engineering-based approaches are highly
  quantitative, communicating basic concepts using
  an advanced mathematics.
• Faculty and students historically struggle
  because construction students do not have the
  background or time to master the mathematical
  skills.

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Literature Review

• learning improvements occur when computer-aided
  visualizations and animations are used in the
  classroom (Tjaden and Martin, 1995 Kulik and
  Kulik, 1989)
• Dual coding hypothesis, which states that
  long-term memory consists of both a verbal and
  visual coding mechanism (Mayer and Sims, 1994
  Mayer and Moreno, 1998).

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What Did I do?

• Recognized that students learn in a variety of
  ways
• Realized that animations , accompanied by
  symbolic teaching and oral explanation, will help
  to increase student interest
• Developed animated tools to help students
  overcome difficulties in working with forces,
  moments, displacements, and stresses.
• As an instructor, these digital animations will
  help me to
• emphasize or de-emphasize certain structural
  properties
• exaggerate material behavior to convey certain
  principles

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Results How did I use it?

• Explain Loads
• Wind load
• Explain Ideas
• Load Propagation
• Tributary Area
• Explore and Understand Concepts
• Concrete Cracking
• Concrete Reinforcement
• Diaphragm Action

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How Can you use it?

• Designing a visualization is like designing an
  educational activity
• What you see in a visualization is built on what
  you already know (students dont see what you
  see)
• Be simple
• Match the mode of presentation to the mental
  organization the student is creating

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Questions?
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Thank You