WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development
Print ISSN: 1790-5079, E-ISSN: 2224-3496
Volume 14, 2018
The 3DPrint in Technical Education and Creativity Development
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Abstract: This is a paper whose goal is to analyze exploitation of 3D-print in the technical education and its influence on students creativity. This study is based on analyze of students creative approach to the solution of technical problems. In the industry, the 3D-print is often used for printing new parts of newly developed devices. It is obvious that the 3D-print can be used in schools for preparing parts of students design proposals and their testing. In the past, students of technical schools often creates technical drawings of simple devices and this activities are examples of project based learning. So far, the students only seldom have possibility to realize their proposals otherwise than build it from serially produced elements or kits. This was a significant limitation. Nowadays the 3D-print allows to produce some original parts, whose production would have been impossible earlier. So, the student’s work is more like the real work of designers. Many works show that the project based learning has positive effect on student´s creativity. Two groups of students were compared in this study: One composed from students working on projects design tasks with use of 3D-print-prototyping and second group in which students used only drawings and CAD programs for solution of their objectives. The students from the first group come up to much better results.
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Keywords: 3D-printing, Arduino, Prototyping, Project-based learning, Problem-based learning, Programing
Pages: 668-673
WSEAS Transactions on Environment and Development, ISSN / E-ISSN: 1790-5079 / 2224-3496, Volume 14, 2018, Art. #73