An alternating practical pedagogical approach for sensors and actuators teaching: “learning through a multi thematic mini rolling robot design project”

This paper first point out the complexity of the relation between the new student generation and the teachers. We describe first some major changes in student’s behaviour. The consequences on the quality and efficiency of traditional pedagogy are then indicated. As an example, we show that our traditional approach for teaching “Sensors and actuators theory and applications” does not match any more with the students needs. In order to improve the efficiency of our teaching, we present here a practical and pedagogical approach (bottomup practical and attractive method, small robot system design and test) which is now replacing the previous traditional course.