Does CAD improve spatial visualization ability?

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2001, Pages 3943-3950

  Yue, Jianping ^a   Chen, Daniel M ^b  

^a Essex County College   (United States)

^b CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER GAMES; GENERALIZATION; SPATIAL VISUALIZATION ABILITY; TECHNICAL DRAWINGS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; PERSONNEL; PERSONNEL TRAINING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; STUDENTS; TECHNICAL WRITING; VISUALIZATION;

COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN;

EID: 8744233702     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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