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Oil Well Drilling Animation The Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering approached the FIC to create an animation of the drilling process of an oil well. The FIC worked with Dr. Bommer to produce a new animation for his class at no cost to him or his department. |
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Distance Learning Facilities The FIC supports three state-of-the-art distance learning classrooms, allowing remote students to view your lectures live via a streaming webcast. Captured lectures are posted for on-demand viewing at any time. You can pre-record a lecture if you need to miss a class, to go over remedial material, or to present material that cannot be covered in class due to time constraints. |
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Polaris Portfolio Tool Online instructional tools are not necessarily specific to a single course or concepts, but rather serve a more general purpose for a large audience…Polaris is a custom built College-wide portfolio tool. With Polaris, students can post projects, work in groups, do reflective exercises on their engineering education and create a media-rich resume. |
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Tandberg 6000 A user friendly self-service videoconferencing system is available so engineering faculty can communicate with colleagues or students at other locations. The Tandberg 6000 easily transmits audio and video along with data from other sources, such as a laptop or document camera. Seamless two-way interaction allows true collaboration with people at other sites. |
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ECAC Podcast Podcasts, unlike a webstream, are unique in that users can “subscribe” to content and automatically receive regular updates. Content can be audio, video, or even “enhanced” media. This delivery option allows for instructional assets to be both portable and archive-ready. Michael Powell, Director of the Engineering Career Assistance Center, approached the FIC to use this exciting technology to assist engineering students in the job search process. |
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Building Mass & Energy Balance Simulations Interactive simulations allow learners to manipulate a system and observe the consequences of their actions in a data-rich environment. This simulation allows students to change different parameters on a typical house in Austin and Chicago to calculate the resulting heating and cooling energy loads. |
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BME Tech Features Video can be an effective means of bringing students to the field where classroom concepts gain practical relevance. BME301 Tech Features is a series of short documentaries that highlight emerging technologies in Biomedical Engineering. Each feature focuses on a particular research project, and shows how this research will have a profound impact in the future. |
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Energy Conservation Myths The FIC has extensive experience designing and developing both instructional and informational web sites. Energy Conservation Myths challenges learners to evaluate claims about energy usage. In addition to providing information and equations needed to evaluate each myth, this site incorporates animation and interactive elements to help illustrate key concepts. |