Title :
Engineering tools: An aid or menace to engineering education
Author :
Yoder, Stanley L. ; Uhran, John J., Jr.
Abstract :
The authors note that the age of the computer has brought with it a host of software tools to help the engineer do a better job. Like most innovations, engineering tools have both good and bad points. The issue of good and bad is often dependent on the particular tool used. The authors try to present both sides of this issue, keeping in mind that an engineering tool is a device or a means by which the capabilities of a person can be extended beyond what is normally possible, or which can decrease the effort involved in solving a problem. Examples of such tools include schematic capture, printed circuit and VLSI layout, editors, spreadsheets, simulators, and programmable logic device compilers
Keywords :
Circuit simulation; Computer hacking; Computer security; Engineering education; Industrial training; Logic devices; Printed circuits; Software tools; Space exploration; Very large scale integration;
Conference_Titel :
Frontiers in Education Conference, 1993. Twenty-Third Annual Conference. 'Engineering Education: Renewing America's Technology', Proceedings.
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1482-4
DOI :
10.1109/FIE.1993.405376