ASYNCHRONOUS HANDS-ON EXPERIMENTS FOR MECHATRONICS EDUCATION

摘要

There has been great interest and effort at many engineering educational institutionsrnto introduce on-line, or "asynchronous" courses. However, at the present time, thernvast majority of on-line or distance education courses lack any hands-on activitiesrnthat require the manipulation of physical artifacts or physical experimentation. Thisrnpaper describes a series of hands-on Mechatronics experiments associated with anrnintroductory Mechatronics course that could be done "anytime, anywhere"rn(asynchronously). The experiments are based on a relatively inexpensive "kit" ofrncomponents and a single-board microcontroller.