Civil Engineering Education in a Visualization Environment: Experiences with VizClass

Journal of Engineering Education, Jul 2006 by Grimes, Douglas, Warschauer, Mark, Hutchinson, Tara, Kuester, Falko

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This project was funded by the National Science Foundation Combined Research Curriculum Development program under Grant Number EIA-0203528, where Dr. Anita LaSalle, is our program director. We also acknowledge the support through the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2), the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine (UCI); and Research and Graduate Studies at UCI. We also thank graduate students Ben Langhorst and Andrew Good, and we especially thank Mark Phair for his contributions to SketchFEA.

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