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Linda N. Laursen; Thomas Ryberg – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2025
This paper contributes to current discussions of digital teaching and technology within the field of engineering design education. We enter this dialogue by analysing a hybrid digital learning design for a 15-ECTS engineering design course. The course design pedagogically integrates principles from networked learning research, Problem-Based…
Descriptors: Design, Engineering Education, Blended Learning, Accountability
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Li, Huaizhong; Öchsner, Andreas; Hall, Wayne – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
This paper introduced how a mechanical engineering course was redesigned by applying experiential learning theory to improve student engagement and learning experience. Design of machine elements has been considered by students to be a difficult course. Traditional teaching methods tend not to be effective in engaging students. Experiential…
Descriptors: Experiential Learning, Learner Engagement, Student Experience, Engineering Education
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Clegg, John R.; Diller, Kenneth R. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Challenge-based teaching facilitates students' simultaneous development of content mastery and strategies for applying technical knowledge innovatively. The University of Texas at Austin Department of Biomedical Engineering has offered a challenge-based course on biotransport as an accelerated study-abroad learning experience in Cambridge,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Mastery Learning, Transfer of Training, Self Efficacy
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Alves, Anabela C.; Sousa, Rui M.; Fernandes, Sandra; Cardoso, Elisabete; Carvalho, Maria Alice; Figueiredo, Jorge; Pereira, Rui M. S. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Project-Based Learning (PBL) has been implemented in the first year of the Industrial Engineering and Management programme at the University of Minho, Portugal, since 2004/2005. The purpose of this paper is to analyse and discuss teachers' experiences in PBL in this programme and to explore its implications for student learning and for teaching…
Descriptors: Teaching Experience, Educational Practices, Problem Based Learning, Engineering Education
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McCrum, Daniel Patrick – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
For a structural engineer, effective communication and interaction with architects cannot be underestimated as a key skill to success throughout their professional career. Structural engineers and architects have to share a common language and understanding of each other in order to achieve the most desirable architectural and structural designs.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Undergraduate Students, Problem Based Learning, Active Learning
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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
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Mclaughlan, R. G.; Kirkpatrick, D. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
Increasingly, professional university programmes seek to develop graduates' generic skills and capabilities and their capacity to transfer skills to new situations. Professionally-oriented study should demonstrate not only academic rigour, but also genuine relevance and value to the profession. In disciplines such as science and engineering this…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Economic Development, Active Learning, Foreign Countries