Teaching Aid Development of Elecropneumatic Based Automation Course

To conduct the entertaining and attractive activities on learning process, therefore the design of valid and practical teaching aid and its implementation on electro pneumatic based automation course is presented in this paper. An electro pneumatic sorting machine with Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) based automation is designed as a teaching aid to existing teaching and learning process, and to achieve the learning outcomes towards enhancing the student’s knowledge and hands-on skill. The Development Research Method is applied to develop the existing electro pneumatic didactic trainer device. Validation stage is held to confirm that proposed teaching aid. Validator involves the expert lecturer on relevant field, meanwhile the practicality is measured by lecturer and students of course participants. Based on the survey, the respondents are strongly agree that 92,6 % and 94,8 % of proposed teaching aid are valid and practical respectively. Furthermore, the results claimed that using the proposed teaching aid there is improvement in the electro pneumatic course learning process. Keywords—development research; electro-pneumatic; sorting machine; teaching aid