Designing Toy Robots To Help Autistic Children An Open Design Project For Electrical And Computer Engineering Education | Zendy

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Designing Toy Robots To Help Autistic Children An Open Design Project For Electrical And Computer Engineering Education

Author(s) -

André Clavet,

Mario Lucas,

G. Lachiver,

François Michaud

Publication year - 2020

Publication title -

papers on engineering education repository (american society for engineering education)

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Conference proceedings

DOI - 10.18260/1-2--8280

Subject(s) - contest , bachelor , curriculum , computer science , engineering education , robot , session (web analytics) , mathematics education , engineering management , engineering , artificial intelligence , pedagogy , psychology , world wide web , archaeology , political science , law , history

In our curricula, freshmen use an autonomous robotic platform to get introduced to fundamental concepts in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Using this platform, teams of students interested by the challenge are invited to apply knowledge acquired during their first year of studies by participating in a toy robot design contest. Initiated in 1999, the challenge is to design a mobile robot to help autistic children. The goal of this paper is to describe the contest, its organization, its pedagogic principles and its impacts in order to show how open design projects can create meaningful and exciting learning experiences for students in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

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