Abstract
Mechatronics is a complex, highly technical, multidisciplinary subject that involves the design and manufacture of integrated products. In order to teach it properly in a course, student teams have to engage in designing a product. Due to the complicated nature of mechatronic products, such a project further complicates the administration of mechatronics courses. This paper presents a design of a course for non-technical high school students. The design includes elements that motivate students to devote extra hours for technology study; it leads students to successfully design products through managing a team project with little budget and scarce teaching resources. We present the structure of the course and its evaluation. We conclude that such a course can be taught to non-technical university students thus bringing them closer to understanding technology and engineering.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 557-562 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | International Journal of Engineering Education |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| State | Published - 2003 |
