DocumentCode
713476
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
fYear
2015
fDate
17-19 March 2015
Firstpage
3252
Lastpage
3257
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;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Industrial Technology (ICIT), 2015 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location
Seville
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICIT.2015.7125579
Filename
7125579
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