Control Engineering Learning by Integrating App-Inventor Based Experiments

This paper presents a teaching/learning experiment on the use of MITAppI2 as a friendly tool in Automation courses. The goal was to assess if the up-to-date mobile applications can act as promoters in learning automation topics. The experiment took place in two Portuguese universities. The results achieved point towards a successful use of these tools in university classes.

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