NDLI: A competition-motivated, interdisciplinary design experience

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	De Vault, J.E.
Copyright Year	1998
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Kansas State Univ., Manhattan, KS, USA (De Vault, J.E.)
Abstract	This paper describes a six-year effort to provide students with an interdisciplinary, design-oriented, engineering experience through the implementation of a mobile robotics course and integral mobile robot contest. Open to all students that have completed engineering physics, the mobile robotics course requires teamwork, project management, and a mixture of theoretical understanding and laboratory skills. Student outcomes are both evaluated and publicly demonstrated through participation in an annual robot contest. Early access to this course, coupled with the option (and common practice) of repeating the activity, simultaneously provides beginning students with an introduction to the engineering discipline and more advanced students with a significant design experience. Mobile robots are designed and constructed to compete in events ranging from maze navigation to sumo wrestling. Students develop skills in both mechanical and electrical fabrication while designing mechanisms, circuits, and computer programs to support autonomous, situated operation. Design considerations, innovative features, and programming strategies are described in final reports that are shared with succeeding classes. The instructional challenge is to move from traditional information presentation to the provision and maintenance of a dynamic, cooperative and collaborative, active-learning environment.
Starting Page	460
Ending Page	465
File Size	964548
Page Count	6
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780347625
ISSN	01905848
DOI	10.1109/FIE.1998.736893
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1998-11-04
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Mobile robots Design engineering Physics Teamwork Project management Laboratories Navigation Fabrication Circuits Robot programming
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Education Computer Science Applications Software

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
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