Designing toy robots to help autistic children - An open design project for electrical and computer engineering education

ASEE Annual Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2000, Pages 1877-1886

  Michaud, Francois ^a   Clavet, André ^a   Lachiver, Gérard ^a   Lucas, Mario ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION SKILLS; COMPUTER ENGINEERING; ROBOTIC PLATFORMS; TEAMWORK;

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; ELECTRONIC MAIL; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE ENGINEERING; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; ROBOTS; STUDENTS;

ENGINEERING EDUCATION;

EID: 8644239462     PISSN: 01901052     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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