The VISIR+ project-helping contextualize math in an engineering course

Abstract

Abstract-The long-term goal of engineering education is to prepare students to work as engineers. Being a practical profession, laboratories play a crucial role in illustrating concepts and principles as well as improving technical skills. In the last decades the use of online resources (simulators and remote labs) has been growing, either as a complementary and/or as an alternative way of developing experimental competences. In the scope of the VISIR+ Project, this work presents the first results of a didactical implementation using simultaneously the remote laboratory VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality), simulation and calculus in a Math Course at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). The preliminary results indicate that the use of several resources increases students' performance, boosting their learning and competence development.

An Alternative Way of Teaching Operational Amplifiers Using a Reconfigurable and Expandable Kit

“…It is currently well accepted by the educational community [19], [20] and is being adopted in several European institutions (Portugal, Spain, Sweden, etc.). Additionally, an ERASMUS+ project, named VISIR +, widespread their adoption in Latin American countries by integrating it as an important leaning object of common electronic engineering courses [21], [22]. However, and despite the maturity of the VISIR system, that makes it as a solution in education, it is not exclusively dedicated to experiment OpAmp circuits, neither it has a simulation tool, that would facilitate the integration of the practical and the experimental activities in a single educational tool.…”