QUALITY IMPROVEMENT OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION: DESIGN OF AN APPLICATION FOR LEARNING TECHNICAL DRAWING

Abstract

The fundamental purpose of an engineering drawing is to carry, control and maintain a product's definition in a precise and clear way with no risk of misinterpretation or assumption. To satisfy this, engineers need to develop an understanding of spatial objects in the graphic communications. Therewith the students should learn the rules of drawing, technical drawing course must enable them to properly understand the shape. Internet and available computational platforms are suitable for modernizing existing courses of technical drawing with new contents. The paper presents the authors’ efforts to modernize technical drawing course by interactive content that accompany conventional teaching. The developed web based application is used in exercises to support the existing practicum. The methodology used in the preparation of exercises and its application to several examples is presented. Polls indicate that students are very satisfied with the new methods of learning available to them in this way.