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Exploring the Development of Engineering Design in an Integrative Robotic STEM Program

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Emerging Technologies for Education (SETE 2016)

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The present study intends to propose an interdisciplinary program that is based on integrative STEM approach and further to explore the development of engineering design in the program. The participants are 29 graduate and university students who take an optional course ‘Robotics’ in an university in Taiwan. Data collections include the groups’ research notes and interviews from selected groups. The result reveals that the participants could perform most of the engineering design practices, however, they have insufficient practices on the meta-cognitive dimensions. In addition, the factors that affect the participants’ engineering design are also revealed. Some suggestions that are beneficial in developing the engineering design are proposed in this study.

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  1. Department of Technology Application and Human Resource Development, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

    Yu-Kai Chen & Chi-Cheng Chang

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  1. National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan

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  2. Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Rome, Italy

    Rosella Gennari

  3. National Cheng-Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

    Yueh-Min Huang

  4. The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Haoran Xie

  5. MC Information Multimedia Communication AG, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Yiwei Cao

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Chen, YK., Chang, CC. (2017). Exploring the Development of Engineering Design in an Integrative Robotic STEM Program. In: Wu, TT., Gennari, R., Huang, YM., Xie, H., Cao, Y. (eds) Emerging Technologies for Education. SETE 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10108. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52836-6_7

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