In engineering, architecture, and other fields, computers are no longer merely teaching aids. They have become inseparable from the content of these disciplines. Computers have become a means of both expression and investigation. Students in architecture use computer-aided design to visualize and represent buildings, landscapes, and entire cities. The three-dimensional models produced on computers allow the student architect to combine and rearrange light and shadow and assess the effects of these changes on materials costs or energy use.
Students can collaborate on design.
Soon, through the Internet, students here will be working with students at universities elsewhere, all in preparation for the way they will collaborate as working professionals. Advancing On the Frontiers of Research Computers and computerized equipment have long been mainstays of scientific research. Roseanne M. Ford , associate professor of chemical engineering, is leading the University effort to perfect ways of using existing soil bacteria to break down contaminants that threaten the water supply. Most universities have been slow to realize how computers are revolutionizing research in the humanities. Not so here at the University.