Images and Reversals Word Bound, The Power of Seeing Thomas Ca. West Visualization Research Institute, Inc. "Until the 1960s, a student in an American engineering school was expected by his teachers to use his mind's eye to examine things that engineers had designed ~ to look at them, listen to them, walk around them, and thus to develop an intu/~ve ~eel'for the way the material world works (and sometimes doesn't work).".. "By the 1980s, engineering curricula had shifted to analytical opf)maches, so that visual and other sensual knowledge of the world seemed much less relevant . . . . As focuses dropped drawing and shop prac~ce from their curricula and deemed plant v ~ unnecessary, . . . working knowledge of the material world disatYpeared from faculty agendas and therefore from student agendas, and the nonverbal, tacit, and intuitive understanding essen~al to engineering design atrophied." In his book Eng/neering and the Mind's Eye, Eugene Ferguson provides an overview of developments in en~neering education and practice over long periods and in recent times - - providing an assessment of some of the larger implications and consequences of progressively abandoning visual and non-verbal approaches. Ferguson asserts that the dominant trend
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Word bound, the power of seeing
West, Thomas G.
Follow ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
, Volume 31 (1)
Association for Computing Machinery – Feb 1, 1997
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