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- Title
Improving students’ freehand sketching skills in mechanical engineering curriculum.
- Authors
Uziak, Jacek; Fang, Ning
- Abstract
Freehand sketching is a fundamental skill in mechanical engineering and many other engineering disciplines. It not only serves as a communication tool among engineers, but plays a critical role in engineering design and problem solving. However, as computer-aided drafting has replaced traditional drawing classes nowadays, the training of students’ freehand sketching skills has been almost completely eliminated in modern engineering curricula. This paper describes the attributes of freehand sketching and its roles in several essential aspects of engineering; in particular, in its roles in problem solving, of which current literature has ignored. Representative examples are provided to show students’ freehand sketching skills in problem solving in a foundational undergraduate mechanical engineering course. Pedagogical suggestions are made on how to teach freehand sketching to engineering students.
- Subjects
FREEHAND technical sketching; MECHANICAL engineering; COMPUTER-aided design; MECHANICAL drawing; CURRICULUM
- Publication
International Journal of Mechanical Engineering Education, 2018, Vol 46, Issue 3, p274
- ISSN
0306-4190
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0306419017744156