Proposals for Practical Experimental Projects forExploration of a Teaching Kit in the Automation and Control course Fernando José Cesílio Branquinho, Alexandre Sobrino Ganança, Antonio Carlos Marques do Amaral Guerra, Cláudio Souza Nunes, Maurício Neves Asenjo, Marcos Antonio Santos de Jesus

Abstract

It is known that student performance can be influenced by characteristics related to the teacher's practice and characteristics, characteristics of the academic subject and its place in school programs, in addition to social and group factors. When considering that practice is one of the factors that influence the teaching and learning process, the present study presents two proposals for experimental practical projects for a teaching kit currently being adopted in the Automation and Control course, taught as part of the curriculum of the Mechanical Engineering course at Santa Cecília University. Developed with the aim of promoting greater student engagement through a more active teaching and learning strategy, the two practical projects aim to control an industrial elevator through two approaches: manual, involving direct interaction with the call buttons in each floor, and automatic, with random movement and configurable stay intervals between floors. The implementation of the two experimental projects, from a pedagogical point of view, was able to generate greater engagement on the part of the students, demonstrating the effectiveness of the approach, with student impressions capable of being verified in future work as research subjects.