Using virtual reality to address competency gaps

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 2251-2261

  Whitman, Larry ^a,b   Madhavan, Vis ^a,b   Malzahn, Don ^a,b   Twomey, Janet ^a,b   Krishnan, Krishna ^a,b  

^a WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Wichita State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS; ORAL COMMUNICATION; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT; VIRTUAL REALITY MARKUP LANGUAGE (VRML);

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROCESS CONTROL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; XML;

VIRTUAL REALITY;

EID: 8744223393     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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