Motivating younger students by using engineering graduation projects to facilitate their work

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.