Design and Development of Lift Didactic Model Within Subjects of Mechatronics

The paper is directed to the problems of the reduced functional and didactic lift model applied in the education at the university. This didactic tool should support the concept of education applied through the project-based learning. The education conceived by this method is based on the fact that during the process of the problem task solving and the same through the modelling of the problem situations the students are earning their creative activity experience and they are creatively learning the knowledge about the way of the problem task solving. The model enables the students to imitate various lift operational phases oriented mainly both on the safe transportation of the people and on the elimination of the equipment damage risk resulting from its operation. In the same way it serves for the practical verification of the lift control operational program and the typical tasks related to the operation of this equipment model and the research tasks practically solved through the real model of the equipment. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd.