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McKenna, Ann F.; Hynes, Morgan M.; Johnson, Amy M.; Carberry, Adam R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Product archaeology as an educational approach asks engineering students to consider and explore the broader societal and global impacts of a product's manufacturing, distribution, use, and disposal on people, economics, and the environment. This study examined the impact of product archaeology in a project-based engineering design course on…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Global Education, Economic Impact, Social Influences
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Powell, Peter C. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
This paper describes the procedures used to assess the extent that a team of students, and the individual students in it, has mastered the competencies set for a student team-based open-ended project. The paper addresses questions such as: why examine team-based project work? What and when to examine? What are the essential regulations and…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Student Projects, Teamwork, Active Learning
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Kear, Karen; Williams, Judith; Seaton, Richard; Einon, Geoff – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
This paper describes how information and communication technology (ICT) is used in the modular Open University course "T209 Information and Communication Technologies: People and Interactions", first presented in 2002. In this course ICT is used to provide students with practical experience and to support an active and collaborative approach to…
Descriptors: Computer Mediated Communication, Open Universities, Distance Education, Internet