THE IMPORTANCE OF SPATIAL PERCEPTION IN ENGINEERING

Inadequate use of mobile phones from an early age, coupled with reduced hours dedicated to developing practical skills, has led to a decline in spatial skills at secondary level, resulting in a decline in the spatial skills of engineering graduates. There are students enrolling in engineering have had limited experience in graphics. The decrease in time allocated to the basic engineering courses has necessitated the condensing of material taught in these courses. Descriptive geometry is one such course and this paper aims to present a method to bridge this gap, by providing skills that enable increased working memory to maintain the mental construction after the visual stimulus has disappeared. A question appears: “Can exercises in visualizing the intersection of a polyhedron and a plan influence the development of spatial skills?” Visibility rules are the main knowledge used to solve them. The results’ comparison of two samples of spatial visualization and perception is analysed. Data analysis and average formula allow us to observe better results for male than female for the use of spatial visualization abilities and spatial perception one.