Increasing Students’ Interest by Encouraging them to Create Original Lab Projects

Sometimes traditional lab projects based on standard kits and modules fail to stimulate students’ interest and creativity. This paper presents a novel laboratory concept which allows students to develop their own lab projects using open-source resources. The lab experiment includes competition aspec...

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Main Author:	Petre Lucian Ogrutan
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	UIKTEN 2017-11-01
Series:	TEM Journal
Subjects:	Engineering education open-source Arduino creativity
Online Access:	http://www.temjournal.com/content/64/TemJournalNovember2017_653_659.pdf

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spelling	doaj-c2baf6cc84bb4c3097758ca33dab32ca2020-11-24T22:30:01ZengUIKTENTEM Journal2217-83092217-83332017-11-016465365910.18421/TEM64-02Increasing Students’ Interest by Encouraging them to Create Original Lab ProjectsPetre Lucian OgrutanSometimes traditional lab projects based on standard kits and modules fail to stimulate students’ interest and creativity. This paper presents a novel laboratory concept which allows students to develop their own lab projects using open-source resources. The lab experiment includes competition aspects allowing every student to come up with ideas of which the best are selected. The lab projects include both hard and software components using Arduino-compatible systems and interfaces. Before starting the practical activities as well as after the completion of the lab session, the students were asked to fill in an anonymous questionnaire.http://www.temjournal.com/content/64/TemJournalNovember2017_653_659.pdfEngineering educationopen-sourceArduinocreativity
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description	Sometimes traditional lab projects based on standard kits and modules fail to stimulate students’ interest and creativity. This paper presents a novel laboratory concept which allows students to develop their own lab projects using open-source resources. The lab experiment includes competition aspects allowing every student to come up with ideas of which the best are selected. The lab projects include both hard and software components using Arduino-compatible systems and interfaces. Before starting the practical activities as well as after the completion of the lab session, the students were asked to fill in an anonymous questionnaire.
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Increasing Students’ Interest by Encouraging them to Create Original Lab Projects

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