http://oeit.mit.edu/taxonomy/term/69/0 en http://oeit.mit.edu/gallery/projects/starmolsim <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_image" width="400" height="342" alt="" src="http://oeit.mit.edu/sites/default/files/staff/J-Mol.png?1312306985" /> <h5 class="description">StarMolsim</h5> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-collections"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/gallery/collections/star">STAR</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-subject-areas"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/gallery/subjects/stem-sci-tech-eng-math">STEM (Sci, Tech, Eng, Math)</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-themes"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Project Themes:&nbsp;</div> <a href="/gallery/themes/active-learning">Active Learning</a> </div> <div class="field-item even"> <div class="field-label-inline"> Project Themes:&nbsp;</div> <a href="/gallery/themes/visualization-and-simulation">Visualization and Simulation</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-contributors"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="field-label-inline-first"> Contributors:&nbsp;</div> <a href="/about/staff/justin-riley">Justin Riley</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-link field-field-project-link"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="http://web.mit.edu/star/molsim/index.html">StarMolsim</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-project-teaser"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p>The StarMolsim tool allows students to learn the concepts of good design and safe structural engineering through hands-on simulations.</p> </div> </div> </div> <p><strong>Introduction and Educational Need</strong><br /> Students in civil engineering usually explore the components of buildings and other structures from a macro viewpoint. However, many critical elements of good design and safe structural engineering happen at the atomic level, such as material bonding and chemical properties. The StarMolsim tool allows students to learn these concepts through hands-on simulations.&nbsp;</p> <div class="field field-type-number-integer field-field-project-feature"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Make Featured Project? </div> </div> </div> <fieldset class="fieldgroup group-quote"><div class="field field-type-text field-field-project-quote"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <p>Students quickly understand the tools&#39; feature-set without having to acquire any extra programming or operating system skills.&nbsp;</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-quote-author"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="/justin-riley">Justin Riley</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-number-integer field-field-show-quote"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Show Quote on project page </div> </div> </div> </fieldset> <div class="field field-type-link-plus field-field-related-resources"> <div class="field-label">Related Resources:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <div class="link-plus-info"><div class="link-url"><a href="http://nanohub.org">Nano Hub</a></div><div class="link-text">A collaborative effort among several universities to make simulation and modeling freely accessible for education and research.</div></div> </div> </div> </div> <p><a href="http://oeit.mit.edu/gallery/projects/starmolsim" target="_blank">read more</a></p> StarMolsim Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:10:32 +0000 drupaladmin 412 at http://oeit.mit.edu