Multimedia Module Introduction

NSF-SUCCEED (Southeastern University College Coalition Engineering EDucation), is one of several NSF programs designed to improve the curriculum for undergraduate engineering education. For more information on the SUCCEED program you can visit the SUCCEED web site where several professor at Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State Universiy, Univerity of Florida, Clemson and other southeastern universities have complete instruction based multimedia tools for undergraduate engineering courses. At Virginia Tech several professor and their graduate students, who really did almost all the programing, have create multimedia modules for ESM1004 and ESM2204. For this class these modules have been include on your CD-ROM (VT Engineering Tools, Fall'95, No. 1, in the directory: engrdept / esm / pcwoqt or pcwqt: pcwoqt -> PC with out QuickTime movie player, pcwqt -> PC with Quicktime movie player. In each of the windows directories are executables named pcwoqt.exe and pcwqt.exe.

In this section we will begin the process of incorporating these SUCCEED multimedia modules along with other software such as MathCAD, Mathematica. Together these tools are designed to help the Engineering Students at Virginia Tech to have a more complete understanding of fundamental concepts.

Unfortunately information on the CD's are static and can only be changed about once a year. The web page for ESM2204 is designed to be an evolving part of the course multimedia modules. As this class progresses new information will be posted on this page for ESM2204. We encourage you to contact Professor Dr. Ron Kriz at rkriz@vt.edu through out the semester with your comments and questions.