A Challenge to Environmental Making for Positively and Continuous Learning in Engineering Design Education

This paper describes specific examples of environmental making for positively and continuous learning in design subject which are called the “Project Exercise” at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of The University of Tokushima. The purpose of the design subject is training of not only creativity but also information processing, problem solving, group working and presentations. The feature of the Project Exercise is to link with the robot contest. As a result, the training of the motive of the own learning and a continuous study habit is executed. The education effect is discussed from the execution example, the student questionnaire, and the comment form in 2004.