Rethinking Laboratorio Experimental Towards a Methodological Transition

Authors

  • Diego Munguı́a Molina Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Centro Académico de Alajuela
  • Jaime Gutiérrez Alfaro Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Centro Académico de Alajuela
  • Aurelio Sanabria Rodrı́guez Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Centro Académico de Alajuela

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.19153/cleiej.20.3.10

Keywords:

Engineering education, undergraduate research, student projects, research experience, educational experiences

Abstract

In 2012 the Instituto Tecnolo?gico de Costa Rica opened the Computer Engineering program at the recently created Centro Acade?mico de Alajuela. At that time there were neither research space nor resources available for undergraduate students to practice problem solving by applying theoretical concepts to real life problems. The Laboratorio Experimental was proposed in mid 2013 as a research initiative where students and faculty could engage together in projects powered by low cost open hardware and free software. This article shares the experiences learned by the proponents of the lab and a detailed explanation of the projects, also describes the results of students academic experience.

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Published

2017-12-01

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 3 (2017): Special issue devoted to CLEI 2016 (part 2)

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Articles

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