FRI-2G.302-1-CCT2-02
RESEARCHING THE POSSIBILITIES FOR CREATING AN AFFORDABLE PROJECT-ORIENTED LEARNING PROCESS IN THE FIELDS OF AUTOMATION AND INDUSTRIAL COMMUNICATIONS
Abstract
The swift and dynamically changing world poses many challenges to the educational system and the engineering schools must be able to keep up with the development pace for the technological expansion to continue. The schools regularly need new more expensive equipment in order their students to develop the necessary operating skills, but their budgets are often over extended and clumsy to change. The science projects are solution, but they consume too much valuable time in bureaucracy and worsen the quality of education. This work presents the findings related to done research on the possibilities for creating an affordable project-oriented learning process in the field of automation, by creating effective setups with low price components. The real-world problem-based learning process is critical for students’ development and future work success. The swift development of the microelectronics field allowed the mass production of multitude of affordable electronic devices, microchips, sensors, actuators and even ready to use control objects, but they work on lower operating voltages in comparison to the industrial programmable logic controllers (PLC). The solution is additional buffer circuit boards to be created and such electronic circuits are presented. The conclusion is that nowadays, there are many affordable solutions for the creation of the necessary close to real-world practical setups, but besides their low price, their development and creation consume a lot more work, effort and valuable time, which is deficient indeed.
Keywords
Education, Learning, Automation, PLC, Project, Setup
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