Title :
Attracting students to engineering through autonomous sailing yacht development
Author :
Gomes, Luis ; Costa, Aniko ; Moutinho, Filipe ; Mota, Ricardo
Author_Institution :
Fac. de Cienc. e Lecnologia, Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
Abstract :
This paper presents activities carried on during a short course (five days long) offered to high school students devoted to autonomous yacht sailing. The main goal of the course is to expose high school students to several development techniques and technological solutions used to produce electronic controller systems and attracting them to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) courses.
Keywords :
boats; computer aided instruction; control engineering computing; control engineering education; educational courses; electronic engineering computing; electronic engineering education; further education; mechanical engineering computing; mobile robots; STEM courses; autonomous sailing yacht development; development techniques; electronic controller systems; high school students; science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics courses; short course; technological solutions; Boats; Compass; Control systems; Hardware; Navigation; Programming;
Conference_Titel :
Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seville
DOI :
10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125579
