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National Science Foundation funds research that puts engineering design...
The National Science Foundation has awarded us $1.5 million to advance big data research on engineering design. In collaboration with Professors Şenay Purzer and Robin Adams at Purdue University, we...
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Computational process analytics: Compute-intensive educational research and...
Trajectories of building movement (good)Computational process analytics (CPA) differs from traditional research and assessment methods in that it is not only data-intensive, but also compute-intensive....
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The first paper on learning analytics for assessing engineering design?
Figure 1The International Journal of Engineering Education published our paper ("A Time Series Analysis Method for Assessing Engineering Design Processes Using a CAD Tool") on learning analytics and...
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A high school student’s design work with Energy3D
Cormac Paterson is a student at Arlington High School. We ran into him last year while conducting research in the school. He quickly mastered our Energy3D CAD software. In as short as just five class...
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Energy3D in France and Energy3D User’s Guide
Solar irradiation simulations of urban clusters in Energy3D.More than four years ago, I blogged about our ideas to develop a computer-aided design (CAD) program for education that is different from...
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Spring is here, let there be trees in Energy3D!
Trees in Energy3D.Trees around a house not only add natural beauty but also increase energy efficiency. Deciduous trees to the south of a house let sunlight shine into the house through south-facing...
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Spring is here, let there be trees!
Trees in Energy3D.Trees around a house not only add natural beauty but also increase energy efficiency. Deciduous trees to the south of a house let sunlight shine into the house through south-facing...
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Building performance analyses in Energy3D
Energy3D (Tree image credit: SketchUp Warehouse and Ethan McElroy)A zero-energy building is a building with zero net energy consumption over a year. In other words, the total amount of energy used by...
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Building performance analyses in Energy3D
Energy3D (Tree image credit: SketchUp Warehouse and Ethan McElroy)A zero-energy building is a building with zero net energy consumption over a year. In other words, the total amount of energy used by...
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Green building design with Energy3D: How big should south-facing windows be?
Many people know that south-facing windows can help to heat a house in the winter because they let a lot of sunlight in. Exactly how much of the south-facing wall should we allocate to windows? What...
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More analytic capabilities added to Energy3D
Add any number of sensors to a house.According to Wikipedia, computer-aided engineering (CAE) is typically done through the following steps:Pre-processing: This step defines the 3D geometry, the...
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The effect of air mass on building solar performance
Figure 1As it travels through the atmosphere of the Earth, the light from the Sun interacts with the molecules in the air and are scattered or absorbed, causing the radiation energy that ultimately...
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Global pattern of insolation predicted by Energy3D
Figure 1. Global insolation pattern from Pole to PoleThe Sun's power drives the climate of the Earth. Accurately modeling the incident solar radiation, namely, insolation, at a given location is...
View ArticleDesign replay: Reconstruction of students’ engineering design processes from...
One of the useful features of our Energy3D software is the ability to record the entire design process of a student behind the scenes. We call the reconstruction of a design process from fine-grained...
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Accurate prediction of solar radiation using Energy3D
Solar engineering and building design rely on accurate prediction of solar radiation at any given location. This is a core functionality of our Energy3D CAD software. We are proud to announce that,...
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Accurate prediction of solar radiation using Energy3D: Part II
About a week ago, I reported our progress in modeling worldwide solar radiation with our Energy3D software. While our calculated insolation data for a horizontal surface agreed quite well with the data...
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On the instructional sensitivity of computer-aided design logs
Figure 1: Hypothetical student responses to an intervention.In the fourth issue this year, the International Journal of Engineering Education published our 19-page-long paper on the instructional...
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From conceptual design to detailed design with Energy3D
Figure 1: Empire State BuildingAn important objective of our Energy3D software is to explore how to create CAD software that support students to practice the full cycle of engineering design from...
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Accurate prediction of solar radiation using Energy3D: Part III
Predicted and measured average daily insolation for 80 cities.In Parts I and II, we have documented our progress on solar radiation modeling with our Energy3D CAD software. In the past few weeks, our...
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A 16-year-old’s designs with Energy3D
This post needs no explanation. The images say it all.All these beautiful structures were designed from scratch (NOT imported from other sources) by Cormac Paterson using our Energy3D CAD software.He...
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