The paper describes project-type experiments devised to arouse interest in electromechanics, a topic for which students usually have very little feeling. Students are motivated by the immediate relevance of each experiment. The involvement of the supervisor as a collaborator, student and supervisor reactions, and the method of assessment, are discussed.
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