An approach of electric engineering experiment through subject manufacture with PIC Microcomputer

Abstract

Recently, the tendency depending on foreign operations has been increasing from the viewpoint of cost control in many industrial fields. In such circumstances, the expectation to creative education is becoming more and more for engineering education in addition to a conventional practical education in college of technology. In this paper, a new electric engineering experiment for the fifth-year students has performed to develop their creative faculties as one of the synthetic experiments. The design and manufacture of an electronic circuit using peripheral interface controller PIC has carried out through a original theme set by students in the field of instrumentation and control in this experiment. This experiment consists of seven parts; (1) fundamental design (2) circuit design (3) manufacture of hardware (4) programming (5) experiments (6) report writing (7) presentation. One manufacturing group consists of four to five students. These parts have progressed in cooperation with other students in the same group related micro computer control(II) which is one of the lectured subjects. As a result of the questionnaire to the students on this experiment, we got some conclusions as follows; 1. Most of students have been satisfied with their products containing an electronic circuit and the PIC one-chip microcomputer. 2. Most students have been interested in the advanced learning of the manufacture of electrical and electronics circuits. 3. Furthermore, the efforts to show creativity in each article were seen.