Delivery of online electronics and mechatronics labs during lockdowns

- Jayawardena, Amal, Kahandawa, Gayan, Piyathilaka, Lasitha

  • Authors: Jayawardena, Amal , Kahandawa, Gayan , Piyathilaka, Lasitha
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2021 Vol. 2021-October
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  • Description: This paper provides a detailed explanation of several approaches that can be used to conduct online labs for electronics/mechatronics engineering courses and explains the results obtained from a survey conducted. The detailed explanations provide information on how to implement the method, benefits of the stated process, possible challenges, and how to overcome those challenges. Furthermore, this paper presents the analyzed results from a survey conducted to capture the student experience in online labs. © 2021 IEEE.

E-Learning challenges for electronics and mechatronics education during lockdowns

- Jayawardena, Amal, Kahandawa, Gayan, Petty, Mark

  • Authors: Jayawardena, Amal , Kahandawa, Gayan , Petty, Mark
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2021 Vol. 2021-October
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  • Description: This paper explains methods used to deliver online electronics and mechatronics courses and clarifies the results obtained by an online survey to understand students' e-learning experience. The purpose of this paper is to outline the challenges of online learning and to explain effective content delivery methods used to overcome those challenges. This study gives detailed descriptions for each content delivery technique, for each online lab delivery method, and for all the online assessment types used while analyzing the effectiveness of those procedures. A case study on the delivery of an online mechatronics project has also been presented. In addition, the paper presents the analyzed results obtained from the survey to improve the future delivery of online electronics and mechatronics courses in a pandemic. © 2021 IEEE.

Synchronous learning and teaching in engineering education in response to COVID situations

- Phung, Truong

  • Authors: Phung, Truong
  • Date: 2021
  • Type: Text , Conference paper
  • Relation: 47th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, IECON 2021 Vol. 2021-October
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  • Description: COVID-19 and the government restrictions in place have seriously affected the face-to-face (F2F) mode of delivery in education and higher education has been one of the hardest hit. Universities around the world had to implement the transition from F2F to online on very short notice. In this paper, the author presents a case study that demonstrates the challenges, steps, and adjustments taken to bring a course that has significant components of communication, teamwork, and project management from a full F2F mode to fully online whilst maintaining as much learner-learner and learner-teacher interactions and students engagement as possible. This has been achieved, not without drawbacks and challenges, via synchronous delivery mode and with private channels and breakout room function to promote intra-team and inter-team communications, and teamwork. © 2021 IEEE.
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