Using students own mobile phones in teaching wireless programming techniques laboratory

• Autores: Petre Ogrutan, Florin Sandu, Carmen Gerigan
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 32, no. 2 (Parte A ), 2016, págs. 841-848
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents laboratory setups that were developed to familiarize students with the use of the AT command setwhich is a command language having a series of short text strings, that control operations such as hanging up, dialing andchanging connection parameters for modems. The laboratory exercise focuses on applying programming techniques towireless modules such as GPRS, Bluetooth, and ZigBee. To meet the objective of increased attractiveness, laboratoryactivities were designed to encourage students to use their own mobile phones for receiving SMS, making calls or datatransfers - controlled by the AT commands. An impact study was carried out between 2009 and 2015 and involved a total of149 students. The benefits of the new approach were assessed using questionnaires based on the Likert scale. An importantexpected educational profit was the increased acceptance of optional project modules in wireless interfacing.