Cooperative and Progressive Design Experience for Embedded Systems

Project-Based Microcontroller System Laboratory Using BK300 Development Board With PIC16F887 Chip

“…By this approach and student start learning microcontroller system at early period of their academic studies with significance hands-on laboratory experiments will assure the best high-tech way of understanding microcontroller system course with comfort. This will complement the theoretical knowledge of the learner; it will provide opportunity to modern teaching practices, international project collaboration and cooperative learning processes [9][10][11].…”

Teaching Embedded Systems Design – An International Collaborative Project

“…• Learning cooperatively with peers, rather than in an individualistic or competitive way, may help students to develop interpersonal, professional, and cognitive skills to a higher level [5], [7], [12]. • Effective learning is facilitated by assessment practices and other student learning activities that are designed to support the achievement of desired learning outcomes [14].…”

“…Unfortunately, there are two conflicting requirements in any engineering experiment: the laboratory experiment must be simple enough for most of the students to complete, yet challenging and engaging enough to encourage many to think about further [7].…”

“…One of the features of the quiz is that each student sees a very similar, but not identical, set of quiz questions presented in random order. This randomization of the questions allows student to discuss the quiz questions in small cooperative groups [7], [12] without compromising its integrity. With the growth of the quiz question bank, as the course has been offered over a longer period, the danger of plagiarism in the online quiz will largely be eliminated.…”

“…This laboratory is used by up to 500 students every year. The guiding principles in modernizing the DSL for teaching embedded systems were to emphasize professional practice and engineering design, problem solving, and critical thinking skills, communication skills, and teamwork through the design and execution of well-structured and planned courses, where theory and laboratory experiences are seamlessly integrated with the latest industry practices [7].…”