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![](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107194258im_/http://www.nsf.gov/images/x.gif) Press Release 06-127 The Art of Engineering
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Professor uses the fine arts to broaden students' engineering perspectives
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![Students participating in David Snider's class measure the dimensions of a work of modern art.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107194258im_/http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/art1_f.jpg) |
Students participating in David Snider's class measure the dimensions of a work of modern art.
Credit: A. D. Snider, University of South Florida |
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![David Snider uses a pinhole camera to demonstrate both modern and past perspectives on light.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107194258im_/http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/art2_f.jpg) |
View video David Snider uses a pinhole camera to teach his students about both the properties of light and the ways people have manipulated it for centuries.
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![David Snider describes the light-polarizing filter lesson from his course.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107194258im_/http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/art3_f.jpg) |
View video University of South Florida engineering professor David Snider uses light-polarizing filters to explain fundamental properties of electromagnetic radiation to his students.
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![David Snider describes why he was motivated to create his combined art and engineering course.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107194258im_/http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/art4_f.jpg) |
View video University of South Florida engineering professor David Snider has combined art and engineering topics into a single introductory course that broadens students' perspectives.
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![Two students from David Snider's combined art-engineering course trace perspective lines.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20081107194258im_/http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/media/images/art5_f.jpg) |
Two students from David Snider's combined art-engineering course use a marker and a piece of glass to trace perspective lines created by the intersections of a hallway's walls, floor and ceiling.
Credit: A. D. Snider, University of South Florida |
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