Study on Project-Based Learning for Mechatronics Education

Abstract

There are various terms, design of mechanical engineering, mechanism, electronics, programing etc. on basic of mechatronics education. To produce and control of robot is effect as practical education. Our department has a practical class to produce and control using “Line trace robot”. Moreover, we set some tasks that students have to incorporate sensors and lifted up mechanism to robot. They furthermore have to solve contest's task at short period. Contests are held at 5 times (term-A, term-B, final). Each terms and final are not same task. Difficulty of tasks is increased by each contest. Questionnaire survey is carried out after final contest. We analyze the education's effect using this questionnaire. From these results, our research group discusses the education's effect using method of project type on the practical class of line trace robot (producing and control)”.