/en/technology/research/research-projects/techlab
center should have a contemporary medial equipment available. Technical key topics, such as e.g. energy, mobility, construction or automation, should be presented in a student-friendly manner and imparted [...] imparted in an action-oriented way. For this purpose, we make our competencies available for the development, implementation and evaluation of learning objectives, contents, media and methods. An integration [...] field of human existence to children and adolescents of the surrounding area and to recognize and develop their talent during the work with and on technical artefacts. In this process, not least a sensitization
/en/technology/research/research-projects/wheelie/teaching-and-learning-medium
group of school students finally developed an own approach solving such problem. In this process, the school students experience almost all phases of the product development, product utilization and product [...] evaluated in order to save or reduce time, effort, money or any other negative properties (e.g. environmental impact) through optimization. The Wheelie serves as a motivating occasion with regard to a number
/en/technology/research/research-projects/meclab
in the real teaching process itself as well as naturally also to the process of their development. The development of the MecLab learning media system that started in 2006 was characterized by such co [...] transfer the findings obtained to any other automated systems The MecLab learning media system was developed in close and good cooperation between engineers of the company Festo Didactic and tutors or students
/en/technology/research/research-projects/meclab/subsystem-handling
most and radical changes in the course of the research and development work. Prior to today´s solution, three versions in total were developed, constructed and tried out with students or school students [...] t of relatively complex tasks within automation engineering possible that can be used for the development of school students´ competences in pneumatics, electrical engineering and control engineering.
/en/technology/research/research-projects/wheelie/the-wheelie
that is able to transport a standing human being even over longer distances in a silent and environmentally friendly manner. With its electric drive fed by a battery the Wheelie can balance, go forward
/en/technology/research/research-projects/meclab/subsystem-stacking-magazine
Subsystem "Stacking Magazine" The stacking magazine can be used for storage purposes of components still to be processed within the production process as well as for separation or sorting of workpiece
/en/technology/research/research-projects/wheelie/the-mini-wheelie
The Mini-Wheelie The Department of Engineering and its Didactics has developed a working model in order to make the Wheelie easier "to learn". It consists of highly simplified components and has a material [...] doing so, they used the same components like those used for the model. Finally, the partial aspects developed were brought together and, thus, the operation of the model became comprehensible. Then, the school
/en/technology/research/research-projects/meclab/subsystem-conveyor-belt
Subsystem "Conveyor Belt" With the help of the conveyor belt workpieces can be transported from A to B, positioned for the purpose of an assembly line or even sorted by any specific criteria. For sort
/en/technology/research/research-projects/meclab/further-components
Further components The MecLab system is a complex didactic learning media system constituting a learning media network supplemented by: Software (FluidSIM) with library Teacher´s handbook for the intr
/en/technology/research/research-projects/meclab/trial
the direct home environment of the attendants, they developed a great interest in this subject matter. During the three-day workshop all groups developed a fully automated system according to the type of [...] Trial Any developments implemented until May 2008 referred to the respective partial systems themselves. During the trials at school it became apparent that the school students were fixated on the coupling [...] and optimized six different concepts. The present experts were partly surprised at the solutions developed by the children. As a result, the MecLab learning media system proved its didactic variability.