Development and deployment of an immersive learning environment for enhancing process systems engineering concepts

Education for Chemical Engineers

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Norton, Christine ^a   Cameron, Ian ^a   Crosthwaite, Caroline ^a   Balliu, Nicoleta ^b   Tade, Moses ^b   Shallcross, David ^c   Hoadley, Andrew ^d   Barton, Geoff ^e   Kavanagh, John ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Immersive environment; Process engineering; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

EID: 55049092822     PISSN: 17497728     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ece.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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