Using Series Elastic Actuator as a Tool to Motivate Students Engineering Learning in STEM Education

Abstract

Engineering education is a difficult concept for student learning because the student must apply scientific disciplines and connect Abstractconceptual for a design solution to solve a problem. The exciting concept in Mechatronic engineering education is concerned with the basic laws concerning physical nature. Students will learn about machine design and controls, but it is hard to understand. This paper aims to design and develop a Series Elastic Actuator (SEA) as a mechanical tool to moti vate student learning in concepts of mass -spring -damping and closed -loop control systems based on the revised 5E model in STEM education. The students’ activities involve hands -on learning mass -spring -damping and the control systems of SEA. This learning approach helps students to have more interactive learning in a classroom. Moreover, it makes students systemically think and understand the relationship between theory and real -world application.