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Meyer, Jan H. F.; Knight, David B.; Callaghan, David P.; Baldock, Tom E. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Threshold concepts are transformative, integrative, and provocative; understanding these difficult concepts allows students to be capable of solving advanced problems. This investigation and evaluation of a metacognitive curricular approach explore variation in students' and teachers' discernment of structural complexity of concepts and its…
Descriptors: Course Descriptions, Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, Statistical Analysis
Nedic, Zorica; Nafalski, Andrew; Machotka, Jan – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2010
Over the past few years many universities worldwide have introduced a common first year for all engineering disciplines. This is despite the opinion of many academics that large classes have negative effects on the learning outcomes of first year students. The University of South Australia is also faced with low motivation amongst engineering…
Descriptors: Student Motivation, Energy, Laboratories, Civil Engineering
Sextos, Anastasios G. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
This paper presents the structure of an undergraduate course entitled "programming techniques and the use of specialised software in structural engineering" which is offered to the fifth (final) year students of the Civil Engineering Department of Aristotle University Thessaloniki in Greece. The aim of this course is to demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Civil Engineering
Gavin, K. G. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2010
This paper describes the design of the curriculum for a Master of Engineering programme in civil engineering at University College Dublin. The revised programme was established to meet the requirements of the Bologna process and this paper specifically considers the design of a new, second-cycle master's component of the programme. In addition to…
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Civil Engineering, Masters Degrees, Curriculum Development