VECTOR team pools engineering expertise for interactive educational resources
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering
Engineering instructors from institutions across Colorado, Oregon, and Wyoming gathered to provide input and lend expertise to the VECTOR project. Instructors of Statics, Mechanics of Materials, and Dynamics participated in a two-day stakeholder meeting to aid in the development of interactive engineering visualizations.
“Their participation helped shape the resources that will benefit students and educators worldwide,” said Dan Baker, VECTOR co-director and Teaching Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering.
The institutions represented include:
The VECTOR project, led by Dan Baker (CEE) and Meg Brown-Sica (CSU Libraries), will create and expand access to interactive visualizations for engineering courses. The project aims to not only increase student understanding of complex engineering concepts but to also reduce the cost of educational engineering materials. The three-year project will culminate in an open-source library of resources available to students and instructors.
