Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development

Established in 1993 for the development of interactive multimedia software modules for science, mathematics, and engineering education.

Software and hardware interactive multimedia products for education including simulation software, virtual laboratories, software and hardware for data acquisition and analysis, inexpensive virtual reality applications. Production and distribution of interactive multimedia educational modules on CD-ROM.

• Two CD-ROM products have been developed: a multiplatform "Calculus Castle and "Engineering Electromagnetics." Another CD-ROM in genetics, "History of the Human Gene," is also completed. The Center is actively pursuing commercialization of these products.

• The center manages the Conceptual Learning of Science (CoLoS), USA project, which is a consortium of eleven universities and is sponsored by Hewlett-Packard Company.

• In collaboration with John Wiley & Sons, the center continues to publish the award-winning journal, "Computer Applications in Engineering Education."

• The center hosted an international conference "1996 Frontiers in Education" in Salt Lake, which had 617 attendees from 14 countries.