• DocumentCode
    2655901
  • Title

    Notice of Retraction
    Embedding design projects into multidisciplinary engineering education

  • Author

    XiaoQi Chen ; Chase, J. Geoffrey ; Wenhui Wang ; Gaynor, P. ; McInnes, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Mech. Eng., Univ. of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
  • Volume
    3
  • fYear
    2010
  • fDate
    17-19 Sept. 2010
  • Abstract
    Notice of Retraction

    After careful and considered review of the content of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE´s Publication Principles.

    We hereby retract the content of this paper. Reasonable effort should be made to remove all past references to this paper.

    The presenting author of this paper has the option to appeal this decision by contacting TPII@ieee.org.

    The University of Canterbury has embedded design projects into each of the three professional education years (years 2-4 of the degree) in its new Mechatronics programme. The goal is to create an educational mechanism that links engineering sciences and individual class topics to integrated applications. A series of application-oriented laboratory projects using a Programmable Logic Controller is built into the second-year (1st professional year) curriculum. In the third year (2nd professional), a mobile robotic system design project encompasses electromechanical design, embedded control, software development and system integration. In the fourth and final year (3rd professional), students advance to working on mechatronics research projects that address real-life complex engineering problems facing the industrial sponsors. Embedding design projects progressively into multidisciplinary engineering education has proven to be an effective pedagogy to reinforce students´ systems thinking, hands-on abilities, and cross-course linkage.
  • Keywords
    embedded systems; engineering education; educational mechanism; embedded control; embedding design projects; engineering sciences; mechatronics programme; multidisciplinary engineering education; programmable logic controller; software development; Couplings; Logic gates; design; embedded controller; mechatronics; programmable logic controller; project-based education; search-and-rescue robots;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Educational and Information Technology (ICEIT), 2010 International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Chongqing
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-8033-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICEIT.2010.5608345
  • Filename
    5608345