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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