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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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Mantri, Archana – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
The intent of the study presented in this paper is to show that the model of problem-based learning (PBL) can be made scalable by designing curriculum around a set of open-ended problems (OEPs). The detailed statistical analysis of the data collected to measure the effects of traditional and PBL instructions for three courses in Electronics and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Problem Based Learning
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Khattak, Hamid; Ku, Harry; Goh, Steven – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2012
Recently, many educational institutions across the globe have implemented engineering leadership programmes either as a part of a formal engineering curriculum or where leadership development is embedded into separate in-house programmes. This shows the clear intent of these educational institutions to prepare their engineering students for…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, World Problems, Schools, Engineering
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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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Baldock, Tom E.; Chanson, Hubert – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006
This paper describes the pedagogical impact of real-world experimental projects undertaken as part of an advanced undergraduate fluid mechanics subject at an Australian university. The projects have been organized to complement traditional lectures and introduce students to the challenges of professional design, physical modelling, data collection…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Mechanics (Physics), Active Learning, Teaching Methods
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Karlsson, Goran – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2004
This paper describes two related distance courses for instructor and leadership training and a distance undergraduate course in mechanics. Flexible and distance learning are becoming more and more important, so it is important to train instructors for such changes. KTH (Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm) has the course "5C4502 Distance…
Descriptors: Management Systems, Distance Education, Leadership Training, Experiential Learning