Industrial Electronic Engineering undergraduate students have undertaken their third year project in collaboration with RS Components.
Industrial Electronic Engineering undergraduate students have undertaken their third year project in collaboration with RS Components.
Industrial Electronic Engineering undergraduate students have undertaken their third year project in collaboration with RS Components.
The project consisted in designing, assembling and testing an electronic product selected by the students who were advised by a company representative on choosing the necessary devices
Within the Project Based Learning methodology applied to all Mondragon Unibertsitatea engineering studies, third year undergraduates students of the Industrial Electronic Engineering program have developed a project in collaboration with RS Components. To this aim, students had freedom to choose the type of product to be developed, and once selected, they proceeded to design, assembly and test the product.
The products selected and developed by the students included: an electric scooter; an electric powered unit for a wheelchair; an electric children's car; and an electric long board. The students were responsible for choosing the materials and electronic devices required for the projects as well as managing budgets. To do so, students had previously been trained by Ignacio Castro, RS Components representative, who explained how to select and manage the material purchasing process.
Once projects were finished, Ignacio along with the University teaching staff selected the wining project: the motorised scooter produced by Jon Albizu, Pello Bengoa, Nikolas Berraondo, Ander Biain, Jon Errondosoro, Unai Freire and Jon Lizarraga. Selection criteria included project complexity and end results, taking into account that motors selected had different degrees of complexity, with the Brushed DC motor being the most complex.
Each member of the winning team won a Raspberry Pi 3 and all the students in the class received a RS Component diploma.
An open challenge
In this project and for the first time in this electronics degree, the teaching staff has preferred to let students decide on the definition and selection of the product to be developed, but have provided them with the minimum requirements to be met:
- Must be an independent product
- Charging connected to the grid
- Charging process control
- Movement control
- Having an electric drive
- Motor torque control
- Implementing modulation for motor feeding
- Having a control and monitoring system
- Real-time performance integrated into the product
- PC monitoring.
It is worth mentioning that the jury highlighted the high quality of the projects submitted, and the extremely rewarding experience obtained in this pilot test, where the students independently took the lead role of this project.
A stable collaboration
RS Components is a member of Mondragon Higher Polytechnic School collaboration network, and both institutions have an excellent collaboration relationship. RS Components is one of the leading distributors of electronic components, automation and control products, as well as tools and consumables, with clients all over the world and have presence in 32 countries.