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Miranda, Marina; Saiz-Linares, Ángela; da Costa, Almudena; Castro, Jorge – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
In today's industry, employers are looking for civil engineering graduates who have acquired not only substantial technical and scientific knowledge, but who also have good life-long learning skills such as problem-solving, creativity and communication skills. Therefore, it is necessary to leave behind the pedagogical approaches exclusively…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Experiential Learning, Student Projects, Lifelong Learning
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Jasmina Berbegal-Mirabent; Dolors Gil-Doménech; Alba Manresa – Education & Training, 2024
Purpose: This study addresses the challenge of integrating entrepreneurial competences development into the traditionally structured engineering curriculum, recognizing its potential contribution to job creation. Specifically, this study proposes a course design that intersects project management and entrepreneurial disciplines, adopting a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Engineering Education, Entrepreneurship
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Erickson, Lars; Berka, Sigrid; Hu, Xiaoyan; Castro, Zoila – NECTFL Review, 2020
This paper describes an experiential education course designed to enhance student learning while abroad. Studies have shown that students studying abroad need specific interventions in order to profit fully from the immersive experience. The article describes a sequence of task-based interventions designed to prompt students to engage with the…
Descriptors: Study Abroad, Second Language Learning, Cultural Awareness, Experiential Learning
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Tirado-Morueta, Ramón; Sánchez-Herrera, Reyes; Márquez-Sánchez, Marco A.; Mejías-Borrero, Andrés; Andujar-Márquez, José Manuel – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
Remote lab experiences are proliferating in higher education, although there are still few studies that manage to build a theoretical framework for educational assessment and design of this technology. In order to explore to what extent the use of facilitators of proximity to the laboratory and the autonomy of the experiment makes remote…
Descriptors: Laboratories, Engineering Education, Energy, Undergraduate Students