The impact of student's projects: a self reflection

Abstract

This paper brings self reflection of students participating for three years in an UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) project. In a monologue initiated originally by the project mentor and “sponsor”, the student team working to a high degree independently explains their own “learning philosophy”, develops several own points of view and the teacher's role is closer to a moderator than to a coordinator. This student team achieved already very nice results and won several student competitions. In the situation, when practically all European universities are confronted with long term decline of Engineering students numbers and intereset, such view may be very important.