Practical Skills for Students in Mechatronics and Robotics Education

Berry, Carlotta A.; Gennert, Michael A.; Reck, Rebecca M.

doi:10.18260/1-2--35066

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“…The growing importance of mechatronics engineering is due to the rapid change and advancement in technology (Marzano, Martinovs & Induce, 2019). Berry, Gennert and Reck (2020) pointed out that as digital technology continues to evolve, bringing significant changes, Technical Institutions also see the importance to integrate mechatronics in their training so as to meet the demands of its learners and the forth industrial revolution. Moreover, Wu and Liu (2022) have it that module curriculums should currently be designed in a way that mechatronics teaching methods in vocational and technical Colleges meet the requirements of enterprises.…”

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Factors Influencing Students’ Acceptability of Mechatronics Engineering Course: Evidence from Mbeya University of Science and Technology, Tanzania

Nzowa¹

2022

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This study examined factors Influencing Students’ acceptability of Mechatronics Engineering Course. The study utilized the descriptive survey research design and quantitative research approach to address the research problem. A random sample of 138 respondents was drawn from the population of 260 students taking mechatronic engineering at Mbeya University of Science and Technology. Data was collected through a structured questionnaire. The statistical treatment of data was done through descriptive statistics in terms of mean scores. The study established that acceptability is influenced by both learning factors and employability factors. Mechatronic engineering program promotes students learning motivation due to its collaborative and interactive nature. Students’ learning motivation was highly influenced by the way the course focused on hand on skills, thus stimulating the learning environment. Based on the conclusions, it is recommended that to increase acceptability of the course among students, the program should be designed in such a way that it sharpens practical skills among students. This can be achieved by establishing mechatronic workshops which should be furnished with necessary equipment and facilities to allow students to acquire practical skills for self-employment. Finally, technical training colleges and higher learning institutions which offer mechatronic engineering programs should invest in supportive learning and teaching facilities. Availability of facilities is also necessary to cultivate learning motivation among students.

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Factors Influencing Students’ Acceptability of Mechatronics Engineering Course: Evidence from Mbeya University of Science and Technology, Tanzania

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2022

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“…A new robotic platform with a detailed curriculum adapted for undergraduate students, including the core subjects of robotics, especially embedded programming, must be developed to address these issues [ 15 ]. Some research showed that robotics education using embedded programming has a positive impact on students [ 16 , 17 ], and this implies that students understand the application of programming languages and electrical electronics in robotic systems.…”

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Development of an Onboard Robotic Platform for Embedded Programming Education

Lee¹,

2021

Sensors

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Robotics has been used as an attractive tool in diverse educational fields. A variety of robotic platforms have contributed to teaching practical embedded programming to engineering students at universities. However, most platforms only support content with a low level of programming skills and are unlikely to support a high level of embedded programming. This low association negatively affects students, such as incomprehension, decreased participation, dissatisfaction with course quality, etc. Therefore, this paper proposed a new robotic platform with relevant curricula to improve their effectiveness. The developed platform provided practical content used in mechatronics classes and the capability to operate a robot with a high level of embedded programming. To verify the effectiveness of the proposed platform, participants (undergraduates) examined course evaluations for educational programs based on the developed platform compared with the previous year’s class evaluation. The results showed that the proposed platform positively affects students’ intellectual ability (performance) and satisfaction in programming education.

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“…• Standardize components: There was general consensus on the need for standard components and progress was made in identifying them. These are documented in several of the workshop publications [10,12,13]. • Share broad successes of MRE: This outcome was achieved.…”

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“…At the conclusion of each workshop, participants completed an online survey intended to assess their expectations of, and experiences in, the workshop, as well as their plans for implementing MRE in their respective institutions. The final workshop produced another outcomea set of draft inventories and commitments by the working groups to refine and publish their findings [10][11][12][13][14].…”

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Workshops for Building the Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Education Community

Gennert

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Mynderse

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access Proceedings

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research interests include robotics, computer vision, and image processing, with ongoing projects in humanoid robotics, robot navigation and guidance, biomedical image processing, and stereo and motion vision. He led WPI teams in the DARPA Robotics Challenge and NASA Space Robotics Challenge and is author or co-author of over 100 papers. His research has been supported by DARPA, NASA, NIH, NSF, and industry. He is a member of Sigma Xi, and a senior member of IEEE and ACM.

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Practical Skills for Students in Mechatronics and Robotics Education

Cited by 6 publications

References 20 publications

Factors Influencing Students’ Acceptability of Mechatronics Engineering Course: Evidence from Mbeya University of Science and Technology, Tanzania

Factors Influencing Students’ Acceptability of Mechatronics Engineering Course: Evidence from Mbeya University of Science and Technology, Tanzania

Development of an Onboard Robotic Platform for Embedded Programming Education

Workshops for Building the Mechatronics and Robotics Engineering Education Community

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