An Integrated Hands-on Training Program for Education on Mechatronics
Author(s) -
Masatsugu IRIBE,
Hiroaki Tanaka
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
journal of robotics and mechatronics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 19
eISSN - 1883-8049
pISSN - 0915-3942
DOI - 10.20965/jrm.2011.p0701
Subject(s) - mechatronics , creativity , training (meteorology) , computer science , engineering management , engineering , simulation , medical education , artificial intelligence , psychology , medicine , physics , meteorology , social psychology
Recently the difficulties arising from changes of our lifestyle and the curtailment of school hours in primary and secondary education constrict university students learning mechatronics engineering. For the purpose of improving such a serious situation, we propose a new type of hands-on training program for mechatronics education. The program consists of two parts; one is to develop the physical sense of mechanical hardware design and the problem solving ability, the other is to develop the creativity and the sense of system integration. In this paper we report the results of the program to freshmen, and verified the effectiveness by a questionnaire survey on the students.
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