Curso de Prototipagem de Robôs com Arduino para alunos dos Cursos de Engenharia Elétrica e da Computação com o objetivo de reduzir a evasão e aumentar o contato com a robótica

Abstract

In the Brazilian universities, particularly in the engineering courses, the high dropout rate of students is still notorious, especially in the initial semesters. This fact, in most cases, is caused by the strong prevalence of teaching-learning technique based simply on the transfer of knowledge by the teacher to the student, and the large number of computational, maths, physics and programming disciplines that define the first two years. Today, modern society is increasingly in need of new technologies in all branches of knowledge, with which the teaching process must modernize. In view of this scenario, the present work aims to use the prototyping of robots with Arduino as a teaching-learning technique, allowing the students of the courses of electrical engineering and Computer Engineering of UFC-Sobral to relate concepts acquired in the disciplines of physics, computation and computational programming with practical applications of robotics. This will motivate students to stay in their courses, thus reducing the high dropout rate. From a survey conducted with 101 students participating in the prototyping course, the process of 85% of students taking the engineering course in the future has no engineering course. reduction in engineering courses.