Robotics competitions in engineering eduction

ICARA 2009 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Autonomous Robots and Agents

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 624-627

  Chew, M T ^a,b   Demidenko, S ^a,b   Messom, C ^a   Gupta, G Sen ^a  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Engineering education; Robot competitions; Schools outreach

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING DESIGN; FINANCIAL REWARDS; GENERAL PUBLICS; GROWING DEMAND; HIGH QUALITY; ROBOT COMPETITIONS; SCHOOL STUDENTS; SCHOOLS OUTREACH; STUDENT NUMBERS;

AUTONOMOUS AGENTS; COMPETITION; ENGINEERING EDUCATION; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPREADSHEETS; TEACHING;

STUDENTS;

EID: 66149170113     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICARA.2000.4804032     Document Type: Conference Paper

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