Innovating in control engineering teaching/learning with smartphones

• Author(s): Oliveira, Paulo Moura ; Cunha, Jose Boaventura ; Soares, Filomena
• Date: 2019
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/70962
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Science & Technology
• Document Type: Conference paper
• Language: English
• Contributor(s): Universidade do Minho

Description

Currently smartphones are used extensively by students. Thus, their proper use within teaching/learning activities is a reality which needs to be addressed. How teachers and students without advanced programming skills can develop their own mobile devices applications? An attempt to answer this question is presented in control engineering teaching and learning activities. It will be shown that the MIT App Inventor 2 provides an excellent tool to develop simple applications for Android based mobile devices. Examples of applications designed both by lecturers and students using the MIT App Inventor 2 are described, outlining different uses and features. A case study of using applications to support teaching/learning of PLC programming is presented.

This work is financed by the ERDF - European Regional Development Fund through the Operational Programme for Competitiveness and Internationalisation - COMPETE 2020 Programme within project "POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006961", and by National Funds through the FCT - Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) as part of project UID/EEA/50014/2013.