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Fire‐Fighting Robot Contest: Interdisciplinary Design Curricula in College and High School
Author(s) -
Verner Igor M.,
Ahlgren David J.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.2002.tb00715.x
Subject(s) - contest , curriculum , robot , mathematics education , psychology , engineering , medical education , pedagogy , engineering ethics , computer science , political science , medicine , artificial intelligence , law
This paper describes the Trinity College Fire‐Fighting Home Robot Contest and contest‐related curricular developments at the college level and the high school level. We discuss the learning processes related to team‐based robot design projects and present findings obtained from the contest surveys, pertaining to learning subjects, activities and motivation of the participants.