A creative engineering design course for freshman using LEGO robots

Author

Min, Seung-Ki ; Seo, Suk-Hyun ; Kim, Jin-Ho ; Kwon, Key Ho ; Hwang, Sung-Ho ; Jeon, Jae Wook

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. & Commun. Eng., Sungkyunkwan Univ., Suwon, South Korea

fYear

2009

fDate

5-8 July 2009

Firstpage

960

Lastpage

965

Abstract

High-quality courses offered to freshman engineering students can help them to develop into excellent engineers. Freshman-year courses have a great impact on these students. Students can learn what real engineers do by learning important aspects of an engineering career in their courses. Thus, improving the educational effect of courses is an important issue. Many design courses are offered to freshman engineering students at colleges around the world. This paper discusses a design course at SungKyunKwan University that uses LEGO. The course was offered from 2006 to 2008, and will be again in the future. This paper discusses a project-based course using LEGO that will be carried out in 2009 and its expected educational effects.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; educational courses; engineering education; robots; LEGO robots; SungKyunKwan University; creative engineering design course; freshman engineering students; freshman-year courses; high-quality courses; Design engineering; Educational institutions; Educational robots; Electronic mail; Engineering profession; Engineering students; Industrial electronics; Mechanical engineering; Qualifications; Service robots;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Industrial Electronics, 2009. ISIE 2009. IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Seoul

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-4347-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-4349-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISIE.2009.5213303

Filename

5213303