Fostering students' competence in applying interdisciplinary knowledge to solve problems
has been recognized as an important and challenging issue globally. This is why STEM …

Empirical evidence suggests the effectiveness of robotics as a learning complementary tool
in tertiary education. In this context, some experiences benefited from the link between …

Abstract Design-based learning (DBL) is an educational approach grounded in the
processes of inquiry and reasoning towards generating innovative artifacts, systems and …

The paper proposes lab work and student competitions based on the LEGO NXT
Mindstorms kits and standard LabVIEW. The goal of this combination is to stimulate design …

LEGO Mindstorms NXT robots are being increasingly used in undergraduate courses,
mostly in robotics-related subjects. But other engineering topics, like the ones found in data …

Design-based learning is a teaching approach akin to problem-based learning but one to
which the design of artefacts, systems and solutions in project-based settings is central …

Engineering education has been the subject of studies in search of approaches that provide
better results in terms of learning. The Project Based Learning approach (PBL) is the subject …

This paper presents a new approach to teaching programming to undergraduate computer
science students. A dedicated Arduino board along with custom application programming …

This paper describes a new approach for a course and laboratory designed to allow
students to develop low-cost prototypes of robotic and other embedded devices that feature …

Abstract Education in Software Engineering has to both teach technical content such as
databases and programming but also organisational skills such as team work and project …