Self-creation and results of expert systems as a help in the university teaching of future engineers

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Despite that learning by doing ‖i sone of the basic principles inspiring the today ́s university educations, it has been proved that the possibilities of fered by the processes applied by the students themselves and related to the design, creation and use of expert systems associated with learning contents of studies concerning certain techniques and technologies in the university sector and how they could positively influence the learning has been scarcely studied. Based on the need to broad entheknowledge on this field, the present research has its origin in the framework of our teaching experience in the Higher Technical School of Building Engineering in the University of Seville. For fivea cademic years, it has been experimented with asample of university students from the technical field of building. The main objective of this study was first to go deeply in to the state of the art and make progress in the knowledge by means of the experimentation with the students mentioned above, and the ananalyse the results and reach to the respective conclusions, especially those related to the improvement in the competencies acquired as well as in the degree of satisfaction when the teaching was finished. The studysample was allocated in two groups: anexperimental group (whose members individually built an use dexpert systems ) and a control group (which only took partin the formal teaching, without using or building anexpert system).To guarantee the homogeneity, the students were individually evaluated with regard to the irinitial knowledge on the issue that they started to studyas well as on computing / programming. Furthermore,all the students carried out evaluations of knowledge and competencies when there spective teaching was finished.On the whole, results were significantly positive in the learning,so the grades in the evaluations of knowledge and competencies were on average higher than those of the students from the control group, as well as the degree of satisfaction when the teaching was finished, highlighting the increase of motivation. Finally,those conclusions were analysed and discussed,proposing possible further researches and suggestions to teachers an deducation al authorities

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