Motivating younger students by using engineering graduation projects to facilitate their work
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Oliveira, Joaquim; Salvado, Jose
- Source
- IEEE EDUCON 2010 Conference Education Engineering (EDUCON), 2010 IEEE. :1153-1158 Apr, 2010
- Subject
- Engineering Profession
General Topics for Engineers
Collaborative work
Antenna measurements
Laboratories
Computer peripherals
Electric variables measurement
Antennas and propagation
Computer architecture
Hardware
Signal generators
Test equipment
computer aided instruction
cooperative work
graduation projects
electrical enginnering education
- Language
- ISSN
- 2165-9559
2165-9567
This paper addresses a way to motivate freshmen students benefiting from the work of term students in graduation projects. The application of concepts from digital electronics and analog telecommunications systems can reinforce cooperation of students at different levels on a positive way and strength skills. This can also be used as demonstrative experiences to attract prospective students to electrical engineering courses. The experience of a cooperative work with graduation projects is presented and how it can facilitate younger students work and thus contribute for their motivation and skills. The graduation projects used are briefly presented and some results are shown and discussed.