…requires users to install Java. We have provided a Windows installer and a Mac installer that work just like any other familiar software installer. Users should now find it easy…
…if we put solar panels on top of it? This estimate is key to convincing homeowners to install solar panels or the bank to finance it. You wouldn’t buy something…
…popular, education will also become more data-driven. Just as instantaneous business data helps people stay in business, dynamic, fine-grained learning data may help teachers respond to students’ needs more quickly…
The National Science Foundation awards grant to study virtual worlds that afford knowledge integration Blog Post
…explore the effects of installing pollution control devices, such as scrubbers and catalytic converters, on power plants and cars. Students monitor the level of primary pollutants (brown line) and secondary…
…environment through the components. For instance, the solar radiation that shines into a building through its windows are inputs; the heat transfer through its walls may be inputs or outputs…
…students who have little prior knowledge about the subject of design or the process of design to develop some sense of them — through practice. Instantaneous visualizations of the results…
Design replay: Reconstruction of students' engineering design processes from Energy3D logs Blog Post
…functional and editable. For instance, a viewer can pause the replay and click on the user interface of the CAD tool to obtain or visualize more information, if necessary. In…
…Data Analysis Platform (see page 16), for instance, will be able to use the API so any interactive can be integrated without customized work. The idea of a common API…
…feasible to enumerate, a priori, all possible pathways for solving a specific problem. Given a tremendous number of possibilities, researchers can hardly find two identical instances in student data, posing…
…provide instantaneous feedback to students so that their design processes can be guided and informed by the scientific and engineering principles built in the software. Let’s use the investigation of…