Publication
Experiences of an Intensive Programme on Robotics
Eduardo Vendrell; Martin Mellado; Filomena Ferrucci; Andrea F. Abate; Stefan Hodek; Detlef Zühlke (Hrsg.)
Informatics Education Europe (IEE-IV), November 5-6, Freiburg, Germany, IEE IV, 2009.
Abstract
Giving students the possibility to live an academic international
experience is widely recognized to be a crucial factor to determine
the quality of academic degrees. This factor is especially true for
informatics, due to the increased globalization of software
development.
In this paper, the design, objectives, experiences, and results of
two developed editions of a project founded by the European
Commission in the context of the Erasmus Intensive Programme
are presented. The project, named Simulation and Virtual Reality
in Robotics for Industrial Assembly Processes Intensive
Programme (SAVRO-IP) is organized in order to provide some
Computer Science skills and additional learning outcomes in the
context of IT applied to industrial processes. The course involves
three Institutions from three European countries and puts together
students and lectures with different scientific and cultural
knowledge, which participate in a short (two weeks) but intensive
academic and social programme.
The aim of the paper is to illustrate some best practices that
characterize the organization of SAVRO-IP so that other
Institutions can take advantage of them for the development of
other similar international experiences. Moreover, we will present
some lessons learned from our experience that allow us to make
some general recommendations and suggestions on how to devise
Informatics academic curricula.