This article presents a methodology to improve the performance of learning of students in the major of Automation Engineering, through the development of a multidisciplinary project that involves the use of contemporary technological tools and knowledge of previous subjects. It is sought to add in their educational training, theory and practice for the student, learning, new knowledge, and skills within their training as an engineer. Despite advances in teaching methods and the inclusion of contemporary tools in the learning process, the success rate is low. A qualitative and quantitative analysis of student learning is made by integrating a multidisciplinary project based on contemporary tools compared with other reviewed works. This laboratory based on a fieldprogrammable gate array helps the student to acquire skills related to the implementation of reconfigurable logic and instrumentation applied to control theory. The development of the final project involves the design of a graphic user interface, hardware description, communication protocols, and implementation of motion control, it is looking for is that the student can relate theory to practice in order to motivate and increase skills and knowledge, as well as solving both didactic and industrial problems. The results obtained show that the students are satisfied with the course and that the experience with the integration of this type of multidisciplinary projects directly impacts the motivation and learning of the student, considerably increased developed based on the specific indicators that the Querétaro State University has accredited by Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology since 2016.
This paper presents a robot motion controller for an undergraduate laboratory study program. It is designed to help the students learn and to assess specific learning outcomes proposed by ABET by solving a real‐life problem. The main objective of this project is to enable the engineering students to learn some core concepts about embedded systems and motion controllers for robotics by applying them in practice. Also, the proposal shows how to introduce the students to a new tendency in the embedded system market, namely, an All Programmable System on a Chip (SoC). This methodology incorporates interdisciplinary knowledge, technical and professional skills required for pursuing a successful career. In the present study, we surveyed the observations and interests of students towards the learning process, and the results indicate that the inclusion of the robot prototype has a significant impact on providing students with new learning outcomes.
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