Title:
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN ENGINEERING AS A FACTOR INFLUENCING A CHOICE OF STUDIES AT VOCATIONAL SCHOOL AND FUTURE CAREER IDEAS OF STUDENTS |
Author(s):
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Josef Malach and Dana Vicherková |
ISBN:
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978-989-8704-14-6 |
Editors:
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Piet Kommers, Boyan Bontchev and Pedro Isaías |
Year:
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2020 |
Edition:
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Single |
Keywords:
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Artificial Intelligence, Choice of Studies, Career Ideas, Secondary Mechanical Engineering School |
Type:
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Full |
First Page:
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89 |
Last Page:
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98 |
Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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As regards the field of mechanical engineering, artificial intelligence covers the use of digital technology, automation and
robotisation and creates conditions for the digital connection of production processes, which has been called the fourth
industrial revolution, and all such functioning processes represent Industry 4.0. Nowadays, global producers of mechanical
engineering technology offer the so-called smart technologies, covering all kinds of modern technologies for metal
machining, which are at the heart of every industrial production. The aim of this study was to examine whether the current
possibilities of automation and robotisation as components of artificial intelligence in the engineering production influence
the choice of a secondary school in primary school pupils and the extent of pupils preference to apply digital technologies
in the engineering production in their future work. The study also investigated whether respondents answers are influenced
by the year of study at secondary school and their subjectively assessed level of digital competences. The analysis of
answers from 320 pupils from two secondary mechanical engineering schools showed that almost 40 % of pupils were
positively influenced by the possibilities of automation and robotisation in the engineering production and 70 % of
respondents wish their work would be related to the application of digital technologies in the engineering production to at
least a certain extent. Using the chi-squared test, we found out that the motivation when choosing a secondary school based
on the possibility to use automation and robotisation in the engineering production has a significant impact on students
wish to work with digital technologies in their future work. The same test also proved a significant dependency between
pupils self-assessment of digital competences and their wish to use digital technologies in their future work. |
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