The VISIR+ Project – Helping Contextualize Math in an Engineering Course
Date
2017-06-06
Authors
Lima, N.
Zannin, M.
Viegas, C.
Marques, A.
Alves, Gustavo R.
Felgueiras, M. C.
Costa, R.
Fidalgo, A.
da Silva, J. B.
Pozzo, M. I.
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
Volume Title
Publisher
IEEE
Abstract
The long-term goal of engineering education is to
prepare students to work as engineers. Being a practical
profession, laboratories play a crucial role in illustrating concepts
and principles as well as improving technical skills. In the last
decades the use of online resources (simulators and remote labs)
has been growing, either as a complementary and/or as an
alternative way of developing experimental competences. In the
scope of the VISIR+ Project, this work presents the first results of
a didactical implementation using simultaneously the remote
laboratory VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality),
simulation and calculus in a Math Course at the Federal
University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The preliminary results
indicate that the use of several resources increases students’
performance, boosting their learning and competence
development.
Description
Keywords
Remote Laboratory, VISIR, Computer Simulation, Competence Development, Learning and Teaching Strategies, Engineering Education
Citation
Lima, N., Zannin, M., Viegas, C., Marques, A., G., A., Felgueiras, M. C., . . . García-Peñalvo, F. J. (2017). The VISIR+ Project – Helping Contextualize Math in an Engineering Course Proceedings of 2017 4th Experiment@ International Conference (exp.at'17), June 6th – 8th, 2017, University of Algarve, Faro, Portugal (pp. 7-12). USA: IEEE.