Saturday, March 29, 2008

ICT Application in Mechatronic Education


Nowadays, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is very helpful in many ways especially in education. Currently, all the colleges and universities have been standardizing to use ICT applications in teaching and practical. Even in primary and secondary schools also have the computer laboratory which is for students to learn and familiarize about computer.

Furthermore, even in secondary schools have been started to use the powerpoint presentation system in teaching and it was general system in education.On the other hands, in higher education institution ICT application cannot be denied during teaching and learning especially engineering. Student can learn more, get practices and also experiences through the ICT practices such as laboratory and workshop. Example for laboratories which are students going through such as Electric Circuit lab, electronics lab, computer programming lab, CAD( computer aided drafting) and others.

In Electric circuit and electronics labs, students need to use the technology equipment such like multimeter or digital meter to measure the voltage, resistance, and current for a complicated connected circuit. Moreover, in computer programming lab, students can try to do their programs by using certain software of programming. With this software student can easily to scan out the errors and also effortless to know the output of that programs

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