The practical training of the electrical engineering students at the laboratory of electrical circuits

Abstract

One of the premises of the current curricular transformations carried out in the Electrical Engineering career at the “José Antonio Echeverría” Technological University of Havana, CUJAE, is that the relationship between theory and practice is present in the academic activity.  Thus, the students   can learn to apply knowledge to practical situations, effectively handle instruments and equipment, as well as carry out laboratory practices on theoretical bases for developing the professional skills required by their future performance. This article is aimed at proposing the design of seven laboratory practices with real instruments that will help to improve the teaching-learning process of electrical engineering students. The study was based on a descriptive methodology in which the theoretical analytical-synthetic and inductive-deductive methods were used and the survey was used as an empirical method. For the processing and analysis of the information collected, the statistical method was used to calculate absolute and relative frequencies. The research sample consisted of 40 second-year students that represented 58% of the total students´enrollment that studied the Electrical Circuits subject. The results corroborated the importance of using laboratory practices with real instruments to improve the teaching-learning process of the Electrical Circuits subject by relating theory to the practical training of electrical engineering students.