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Helen Boylan; Alison L. DuBois; Brian Petrus – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2025
In recent years, employers have expressed concerns that Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) graduates, though proficient in their academic disciplines, lack the critical skills necessary for success in the workplace (Karimi & Pina, 2021). Additionally, many non-STEM majors do not develop the basic STEM competencies that…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Active Learning, Teamwork, Undergraduate Students
Briana N. Mihok – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Providing engaging, rigorous social studies education at the elementary level is a challenge faced by school districts across the country. In K-12 schools nationwide, social studies education is often neglected so that more time can be devoted to ELA and math, both of which have annual standardized tests associated with them that often carry high…
Descriptors: Social Studies, Elementary Education, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Smarkusky, Debra L.; Toman, Sharon A. – Information Systems Education Journal, 2014
Students in computer science and information technology should be engaged in solving real-world problems received from government and industry as well as those that expose them to various areas of application. In this paper, we discuss interdisciplinary project experiences between majors and non-majors that offered a creative and innovative…
Descriptors: Interdisciplinary Approach, Cooperative Learning, Student Projects, Computer Science Education
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Soroush, Masoud; Weinberger, Charles B. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2010
This manuscript presents a successful application of inductive learning in process modeling. It describes two process modeling courses that use inductive learning methods such as inquiry learning and problem-based learning, among others. The courses include a novel collection of multi-disciplinary complementary process modeling examples. They were…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Courses, Logical Thinking, Problem Based Learning