On the Performance of Volunteer Students and their Engagement with Non-Volunteer Students in an Engineering Student Project

Abstract

This work summarizes the observations derived from the participation of volunteer BSc engineering students in multi-disciplinary multi-education activity (mandatory for the rest of BSc and MSc student participants). The activity aimed at implementing a real-world sensoring use case based on advanced Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, by cooperation of students with different skills and engineering maturity levels. The work reviews the role of the volunteering students in the different phases of the project, the level of integration to the working groups, and the general learning and satisfaction outcomes. The assessment summarizes direct student input and own impressions from the project facilitator, to reflect on multiple educational training and aspects (including social and psych pedagogical perspectives) to conclude on the positive and negative aspects of this type of blended student participation.