@article {Bhatt:January 2009:0949-149X:84,
	author = "Bhatt, Rajankumar",
	author = "Tang, Chin Pei",
	author = "Lee, Leng-Feng",
	author = "Krovi, Venkat",
	title = "A Case for Scaffolded Virtual Prototyping Tutorial Case-Studies in Engineering Education",
	journal = "International Journal of Engineering Education",
	volume = "25",
	year = "January 2009",
	abstract = "By permitting designers to realistically, accurately and quantitatively prototype and test multiple intermediate models within virtual environment, Virtual Prototyping (VP), also known as Simulation-Based Design (SBD), has rapidly gained popularity and become a crucial part of most engineering design processes. While there is a significant demand from industry for students trained in this methodology, currently there is not much room in engineering curricula to permit widespread adoption in the lecture-based classroom. It is possible to develop a rationale and its various stages for a series of web-based and self-paced scaffolded VP tutorial case-studies targeted at students on a course in machine and mechanism design. These undergraduate seniors are permitted to: (1) interactively explore the process of creating engineering analysis models in an integrated VP environment; (2) develop skills for interactive SBD of models; and (3) develop their engineering judgment by interactive exploration of a spectrum of examples. The outcome of a phased introduction of these exercises and our experience based on a number of successful courses offering are also discussed.",
	pages = "84-92(9)",
	url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intjee/ijee/2009/00000025/00000001/art00011"
}