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Augmented reality (AR) enables users to overlay new information over the real environment, allowing them to get a clear perception of physical systems or even to interact with them. AR is a powerful and promising tool in many areas, including engineering‐related ones. Therefore, it has aroused growing interest in engineering education. The main objectives of this study are to examine engineering students'...
Online experimentation available through web collaborative platforms is a valuable tool for students in science and engineering courses looking for skills to be part of the driving force behind Industry 4.0. However, the user's virtual presence on this type of tools demands that their educational value be carefully assessed. This work presents a case study in which students of a Mechanical Engineering...
Engineering educators have been driven to develop practical approaches to supplement scientific background to further develop the capacity for autonomous and critical thinking in students, which has to lead to new teaching methodologies. In 2009, the University of Coimbra has made available on-line a virtual platform with a wide scope, directed towards the learning of Chemical Processes. The platform...
The evolution of the World Wide Web performance as well as the new tools offered by the information and communication technologies opened new horizons to the instructional/training processes, in particular within the engineering fields. Presently, youngsters constantly rely on devices as PCs, videogames, mobiles, tablets, smart phones, smart watches and many other technologies opening the way to the...
This work presents results of a learning experience where students of Solid Mechanics course from a Civil Engineering program at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, used a haptic device coupled with a virtual application to study strength of materials. This study is one of the outcomes of a collaboration between a Brazilian and a Portuguese Universities, where emerging technologies together...
Technology based and hands-on experimental activities in engineering are currently under way in a joint venture involving Portuguese and Brazilian higher education institutions, whose goals include sharing of resources and instructor experiences in using alternative ways of implementing experimental training in engineering, as well as investigating the reaction of students with different cultural...
This paper reports a case study of NeReLa project with regard to first results of different evaluations of remote experiments developed within this project. Performed and planned evaluations that were or will be conducted by four target groups are discussed in the paper. Results of first evaluation, performed by trained secondary vocational schools teachers, are disused in the second section. Following...
The Universidade Júnior, Junior University, is a pioneering initiative of University of Porto taking place during July, since 2005. At the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto different activities are regularly offered in many of its nine departments and oriented for STEM areas also concerned with trying to contribute to foster young students into these areas. The use of emerging technologies...
This work analyzes how K12 students and engineering freshmen have been using a haptic device to feel the elastic force on a spring. In particular, results on the motivating potential of such a learning tool are shown and the answers to conceptual questions about the spring elastic constant and Hooke's law are analyzed. It is clear from the results that both groups of students found the activity to...
This Work in Progress (WIP) paper analyzes the motivation of high school students and teachers to use a free online Augmented Reality (AR) application as a tool for learning/teaching basic concepts of direct-current (dc) circuits. The work also analyzes how students predict, observe and explain phenomena, such as open/closed circuit and parallel and series components. The results show that such an...
We study the impact of the strategy of using Multiple Choice Questions, M CQ, in reading tests, self-evaluation tests and Peer Instruction (PI) classes, supported by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), on the motivation of first year engineer students to study and learn physics. We analyze the answers to conceptual MCQ given pre and after discussion in PI classes, and the students' responses...
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