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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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., “Teaching “Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering” in Context”, Proceedings of the IEEE, vol
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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Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Oregon State University began a new and innovative program
Extending the TekBots [superscript TM] Platform for Learning [superscript TM] to upper division ECE courses

Creator:

Smit, Adriaan

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In April of 1997 it was pointed out at an NSF Engineering Education Innovators conference that “… education appears to ignore the need for connections and for integration – which should be at the core of an engineering education.” In order to solve this problem a group named ‘TekBotsTM’ was...

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Masters Thesis

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for the purpose of developing an improved educational program for electrical and computer

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

TekBots : a platform for learning to revitalize undergraduate engineering education

Extending the TekBots [superscript TM] Platform for Learning [superscript TM] to upper division ECE courses

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