Improving Learning in Electronic Engineering through Platform Open Source

Diez Diez Ángela^{1, 2,} , Ricardo Gago^{1, 2}, Carlos Fernández^{1, 2}, Miguel Ferrero^{1, 2} and Ramón Angel Fernández^{3, 2}

¹Dpto. Ingeniería Eléctrica y de Sistemas y Automática, Universidad de León. León, España

²Member of GMID-CyTULE (Grupo Multidisciplinar de Innovación Docente de Ciencias y Tecnologías de la Universidad de León)

³Dpto. de Ing. de Arquitectura de computadores, Universidad de León, León, España

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Diez Diez Ángela, Ricardo Gago, Carlos Fernández, Miguel Ferrero and Ramón Angel Fernández. Improving Learning in Electronic Engineering through Platform Open Source. American Journal of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. 2014; 2(6):171-174. doi: 10.12691/AJEEE-2-6-3

Abstract

In this study, the main objective is to present an initiative on the Grade students of the School of Industrial Engineering and Informatics, University of León. We have applied the methodology of teaching that allows enhance the interest of students for their own learning. The working method has been organizing workshops that employ strategies of project-based learning and group projects. These projects are limited in time and with a high degree of involvement by the student. There has also been an information system which supports communication and work with all of the workshop participants. For the development of this experiment, we used a microcontroller system as open source Arduino (1). This platform allows improving the teaching of electronic and automatic concepts in a simple and easy way to apply.

Keywords

Arduino, learning workshop, learning Group, workshop

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