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Mark Vincent Huerta; Susan Sajadi; Lisa Schibelius; Olivia Jane Ryan; Marin Fisher – Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Background: Developing teamwork skills is a central objective of engineering education. Psychological safety and conflict management are pivotal components of teamwork, yet despite their significance, research in engineering project-based learning (PBL) contexts is scant. Understanding students' experiences with psychological safety and its…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Introductory Courses, Research Universities
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Lyngdorf, Niels Erik Ruan; Du, Xiangyun; Lundberg, Adrian – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2023
Problem-based learning (PBL) has been implemented with different levels of success in first-year engineering education in response to the rapidly growing requirements for a higher degree of learner agency in graduates. This study is contextualised in a systemic problem-based learning environment and explores the sources of first-year engineering…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, College Freshmen, Engineering Education, Personal Autonomy
Velazquez, Ashley J. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Conceptualizations of "effective communication" vary across contexts and are largely dependent on the needs and social practices of communities. As a global field of study and practice, Engineering is but one community where researchers and practitioners have come together to unpack and conceptualize what it means to communicate…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Content Area Writing, College Freshmen, Engineering Education
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Amaya Chávez, Danilo; Gámiz-Sánchez, Vanesa-María; Cañas Vargas, Antonio – Journal of Technology and Science Education, 2020
In the present article we analyse the impact of problem-based learning (PBL) on learning and perceptions in first-year students undertaking Engineering in Computer Sciences. The module designed took a number of advanced theories of PBL and its application within the Engineering profession. Mixed methods were used to enable data from qualitative…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Instructional Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Student Attitudes
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Ibrahim, Mohd Faisal; Huddin, Aqilah Baseri; Hashim, Fazida Hanim; Abdullah, Mardina; Rahni, Ashrani Aizzuddin Abd; Mustaza, Seri Mastura; Hussain, Aini; Zaman, Mohd Hairi Mohd – International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education, 2020
This study examined the educational effects in strengthening programming skills among university's undergraduate engineering students via integration of a robotics project and an experiential learning approach. In this study, a robotics project was conducted to close the gap of students' difficulty in relating the theoretical concepts of…
Descriptors: Programming, Engineering Education, Experiential Learning, Active Learning
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Pulgar, Javier; Candia, Cristian; Leonardi, Paul M. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2020
For several decades, scholars have studied the role of cooperation and its outcomes in educational contexts. Yet we lack a complete understanding of how different instructional strategies impact the relationship between cooperation and learning. In this paper we present results from a field experiment with 82 first-year students in an introductory…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Physics, Problem Solving, College Freshmen
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Roach, Kate; Tilley, Emanuela; Mitchell, John – Higher Education Pedagogies, 2018
This study presents an analysis of self-reported student perceptions and experiences of authenticity during an undergraduate first-year problem-based learning (PBL) engineering module at UCL. The aim is to further understand how students perceive authentic learning experiences in order to support and maximise this kind of learning throughout their…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Foreign Countries, Problem Based Learning, Engineering Education
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Beagon, Úna; Niall, Dervilla; Ní Fhloinn, Eabhnat – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
This study explores students' perceptions of the effectiveness of a Problem-Based Learning (PBL) design project, taken as part of a first-year engineering module, in developing professional skills needed for engineering practice. Students completed surveys before and after the PBL group project, and produced personal reflections on the process.…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Student Attitudes, Skill Development, Engineering Education
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Crippen, Kent J.; Boyer, Treavor H.; Korolev, Maria; de Torres, Trisha; Brucat, Phil J.; Wu, Chang-Yu – Journal of College Science Teaching, 2016
Undergraduate engineering education in the United States is in need of reform that addresses the recruitment and retention of a diverse population of students. Change Chem is a curriculum reform model that has been created to address this issue for freshman students. This article reports on a mixed method efficacy study of Change Chem, which uses…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Chemistry, Higher Education
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Pucha, Raghuram V.; Utschig, Tristan T. – Journal of STEM Education: Innovations and Research, 2012
Teaching "Engineering Graphics" to freshman engineering students poses challenges to instructors as well as to students. While the instructors are confronted with a lack of material / text book that covers the broad scope of the subject matter, the students struggle to correlate newly developed skills to real-world engineering design problems…
Descriptors: Engineering, Drafting, Computer Assisted Design, Case Studies
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Khalaf, Kinda; Balawi, Shadi; Hitt, George Wesley; Radaideh, Ahmad – Advances in Engineering Education, 2013
This paper presents an innovative, interdisciplinary, design-and-build course created to improve placement, content, and pedagogy for introductory engineering design education. Infused at the freshman level, the course aims to promote expert design thinking by using problem-based learning (PBL) as the mode of delivery. The course is structured to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Engineering Education, Design
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O'Shea, Noreen; Verzat, Caroline; Raucent, Benoit; Ducarme, Delphine; Bouvy, Thérèse; Herman, Benoit – Journal of Problem Based Learning in Higher Education, 2013
The purpose of this paper is to investigate how PBL student teams develop specific leadership configurations when implementing interdisciplinary projects and whether or not tutors help in dealing with the group interactions that are subsequently generated. The data set was drawn from 2 cohorts of first-year students engaged in PBL activities in an…
Descriptors: Coaching (Performance), Tutors, Problem Based Learning, Cooperative Learning
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Sahin, Mehmet – International Journal of Environmental and Science Education, 2009
The purpose of this study was to determine the predictors of student grades in introductory physics courses utilizing problem-based learning (PBL) approach and traditional lecturing. The study employed correlational/predictive methods to investigate and describe/explain relationships of students' physics grades with their expectations, attitudes,…
Descriptors: Grades (Scholastic), Problem Based Learning, Physics, Regression (Statistics)
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Rossiter, Diane; Petrulis, Robert; Biggs, Catherine A. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2010
This paper describes the development of a first-year chemical engineering course over 5 years through action research based on evidence from student feedback. As a result of this research, the course has evolved into a blended approach which incorporates problem based learning (PBL) and online learning tools. Through the use of PBL, the students…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Feedback (Response), Action Research, Problem Based Learning
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Pierre, J. W.; Tuffner, F. K.; Anderson, J. R.; Whitman, D. L.; Ula, A. H. M. S.; Kubichek, R. F.; Wright, C. H. G.; Barrett, S. F.; Cupal, J. J.; Hamann, J. C. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2009
This paper describes a one-credit laboratory course for freshmen majoring in electrical and computer engineering (ECE). The course is motivational in nature and exposes the students to a wide range of areas of electrical and computer engineering. The authors believe it is important to give freshmen a broad perspective of what ECE is all about, and…
Descriptors: Introductory Courses, Problem Based Learning, Computer Science, Engineering
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