New Applications for Mechatronic Platforms in Trans and Interdisciplinary Education

Mechatronic platforms ensure the stimulation of the creativity, problem solving ability in working groups and training skills by solving the tasks and challenges in implementing new assimilated knowledge, but also by using their own ideas, collaborating and team working. The main objectives of the study consisted of examining the effects of using mechatronic platforms in educational processes and identifying new ways to use them in order to achieve trans and multidisciplinary technological knowledge and to create the ability to find and implement solutions to the encountered technological problems with the increase of creativity. In this study the focus was on ways of solving technical issues and this performance was achieved by students and teachers from pre-university education in using Mechatronic Platforms. The study was conducted over a period of two years (2012 and 2013) and benefited from the results obtained in the POSDRU 64069 Flexform - flexible training program on mechatronic platforms project. The obtained results lead to the development of new flexible educational applications for Mechatronic Platforms.