UNIVERSITY of LIMERICK.

Bill Gaughran's Homepage.

Department of Manufacturing & Operations Engineering.

Welcome visitor since 2nd April, 1998.

Personal Details :-

Lecturer :- Graphics, Design and CAD.

Phone Numbers :-

• Internal Ext. 2887
• External No. (061)202887
• International No. 353 61 202887

Room no :- SR2011

E-mail :- William.Gaughran@ul.ie

Recent Papers.

The Graphics Code, Visualisation and CAD. Flexible Automation and Intelligence Manufacturing Conference, Atlanta, USA. May '96.
Design Intelligence in Engineering . IMC Conference, Limerick, Ireland. Sept. '96.
Intelligent Manufacturing and Lateralisation. FAIM Conference, Middlesbourgh, England. June '97.
Engineering Design Strategies - Shifting the Focus. ICPR Conference, Osaka, Japan. August '97.

Click here for the abstracts of these papers.

Research Interests.

• Human factors in designing - with reference to spatial and design intelligences and lateralisation.
• The cognitive developmental effects of drawing, sketching and graphic ideation.
• Development of spatial abilities as a strategy in improving individual proformances in engineering and technology education.
• Computer modelling as a visualisation and communication tool.
• Web-sites as a self-teach medium in visualisation, design, and graphic/spatial encoding and communication skills.
• Technology education in the curriculum of second level schools.

Some Final Year Student's Web-site projects under my supervision.

• Interactive Internet - A Technical Graphics Tutorial on the Internet.
  By Declan Quinn, B. Tech. (ED) Prog. 9314253.
• • The aim of this project was to investigate the potential of the Internet as a specific interactive medium for use in graphics/visualisation tutorials. It is aimed at entry level technical graphics students and is designed to enhance their spatial/visualisation abilities, and to improve their understanding of projection systems.

  
  

• Electronics Support Page.
  By Aidan Flynn, B. Tech. (ED) Prog. 9314156.
• • This web site contains animations to complement the electronics teaching resource material, produced as part of a FYP on electronics support material for second level teachers and students.