Resumen de Industry 4.0 paradigm on teaching and learning engineering
Borja Bordel, Ramón Alcarria, Tomás Robles
This paper evaluates the impact of the early adoption of Industry 4.0 tools and methods (industrial systems that enable manyinnovative functionalities through their networking and their access to the cyber world) on engineering education. The proposedanalysis considers two points of view: professors (teaching) and students (learning). In this context, two experiences wereconducted: an advanced correction and validation system with real-time feedback and a virtual learning environment supported bya remote laboratory. In this paper two objectives are addressed: first the paper describes the proposed Industry 4.0 education tools,based on e-learning and cyber-physical technologies; second the performance of these tools is evaluated in a real context, where more than one hundred students were involved. The experience was deployed in subjects related to microcontroller programming inTelecommunication Engineering and Bioengineering degree programs. Results were evaluated using statistical methods. Firstevidences of the improvement in the students’ motivation, their academic results and their acquisition of Industry 4.0 competencieswere obtained.
