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Tekbots™ : creating excitement for engineering through community, innovation and troubleshooting

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Oregon State University. Dept. of Computer Science, Heer, Donald, Traylor, Roger L., and Fiez, Terri

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Attracting, educating and retaining new engineering students is a challenge. The creative aspirations and "can do" attitude spawned by the space race, Heathkits, and homemade crystal radios have been replaced with the passive satisfaction of video games, cell phones and throwaway electronic appliances. At Oregon State University we have made...

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Research Paper

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community and innovative aptitude as high or higher than breadth, depth, and professionalism. 0 10 20
TekBots : a platform for learning to revitalize undergraduate engineering education

Creator:

Heer, Donald

Abstract:

In 2000 the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Oregon State University began a new and innovative program named TekBots[superscript TM]. This program was created to solve the problems of students in existing undergraduate engineering education not having sufficient skill when graduating in six program educational objectives; Depth, Breadth, Professionalism,...

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Masters Thesis

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values such as personal ownership, curriculum continuity, contextual teaching, fun, and hands on