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A Fab Lab (fabrication laboratory) is such an amazing place to make (almost) anything as the Fab Lab creator, Mr Neil Gershenfeld from MIT uses to say. Many machines, tools and special spaces provides a creative and collaborative environment where students, teachers, inventors and enthusiasts can interact. There are virtually no limits boundaries because, above all, a Fab Lab is an open space for children, youth and adults. Fab LAB Facens is inside a small-forty-years-old and private college which main purpose lies on how engineering students can learn through real hands-on experimentation. This experience are based on a new hybrid methodology we call Deliverable-Based Learning (DBL) where students are lead to think on what they want to deliver as a result of their learning process and then they start a reverse build process till understand how each micro fragment (things, thoughts, process and people) interact to achieve the deliverable. Preliminary results shows that DBL by means of Fab LAB Facens can drive ordinary people to become engineering enthusiasts and help to make a better society.
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Pila, A.D. (2017). How a Fab Lab Can Drive Ordinary People to Become Engineering Enthusiasts and Help to Make a Better Society. In: Ahram, T., Karwowski, W. (eds) Advances in The Human Side of Service Engineering. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 494. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41947-3_33
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