Developing an Intelligent Tutoring System for Vehicle Dynamics

Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS) represent a substantial portion of knowledge from human tutors, therefore they are able to provide a better learning guidance than Computer Assisted Instructions (CAI). One of the most important goals of an ITS is to provide feedback tailored to the learner unique needs. There are several educational activities that are supported by these systems such as: problem solving, example review, educational games, etc. This research focus on interactive simulation to improve the learning curve of vehicle dynamics topics as it has been shown that engineer students usually find math and physics too boring and hard to understand when they are unable to map a topic to a real life problem, therefore a most interactive approach seeks to catch student attention while providing a sandbox to experiment and learn. In this paper we present our first prototype, discuss its design and provide test results based on a two year evaluation process.