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Liuta, Anastasiia V.; Perig, Alexander V.; Afanasieva, Marharyta A.; Skyrtach, Violetta M. – Industry and Higher Education, 2019
This article reports research into the didactic processes of a creative gamified learning process for hydraulics in an undergraduate technical university curriculum, enhanced by industry collaboration. It is based on the use of educational theories of didactic transposition, competency building, learning gamification and emotional intelligence. It…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Learning Strategies, Learning Processes, Hydraulics
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Guseinova, Elena E. – European Journal of Contemporary Education, 2018
The urgency of the given problem is caused by the necessity to develop an innovative education system capable of producing highly qualified specialists with a wide range of social and professional activities and broad-based abilities ready for individual operating innovative activities. The article is intended to searching for the ways of…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Hydraulics, Mechanics (Physics), Student Projects
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Sinobas, Leonor Rodríguez; Sánchez Calvo, Raúl – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
Several methodological approaches to improve the understanding and motivation of students in Hydraulic Engineering courses have been adopted in the Agricultural Engineering School at Technical University of Madrid. During three years student's progress and satisfaction have been assessed by continuous monitoring and the use of…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Hydraulics, Agricultural Education, Foreign Countries
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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
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Knight, D. B.; Callaghan, D. P.; Baldock, T. E.; Meyer, J. H. F. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
The Threshold Concept Framework is used to initiate a dialogue on an empirically supported pedagogy that focuses on students' conceptual understanding required for solving application-based problems. The present paper uses a triangulation approach to identify the threshold concept in a third-year undergraduate civil engineering course on open…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Engineering Education, Hydraulics
Munski, Douglas C., Ed. – Bulletin of the Association of North Dakota Geographers, 1987
The first paper in this volume, "Geomorphic Effects of Flood-Control Channel Works" (H. Rasid), examines the basic mechanisms of morphologic instabilities in man-made or modified channels in terms of their altered hydraulic characteristics and geomorphic responses to such induced changes. Two tables, two figures, and a 33-item…
Descriptors: Careers, Ecological Factors, Economic Factors, Elementary Secondary Education
Geroy, Gary D.; And Others – 1987
The needs assessment reported in this document was undertaken to identify the skills and knowledge needed in the maintenance department of Standard Steel of Burnham, Pennsylvania, so that curriculum could be developed to: (1) train most department employees for most tasks across crafts; and thereby (2) increase productivity by decreasing the time…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Curriculum Development, Electricians, Hydraulics