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Yasmany García-Ramírez – Advances in Engineering Education, 2024
Due to its positive results, active learning has spread to most areas of knowledge of Civil Engineering. Many of these studies used only one technique, which is limiting given the diverse learning styles that the students may have. The road geometric design is the area that has been the least explored in Civil engineering. Therefore, the objective…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Active Learning, Design, Civil Engineering
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Taillandier, Franck; Micolier, Alice; Sauce, Gérard; Chaplain, Myriam – International Journal of Game-Based Learning, 2021
Construction project is a major learning of the civil engineering educational program. However, the related knowledge is difficult to apprehend and assimilate during lectures since it is theoretical and practical work or tutorials on the subject are scarce. To address this issue, the authors developed DOMEGO, a game for teaching construction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Civil Engineering, Construction Management, Educational Games
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Ulrika Uotila; Kimmo Keskiniva; Juha-Matti Junnonen; Arto Saari – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
To respond to construction industry-specific requirements for civil engineers, university teachers need to provide opportunities for students to develop their generic and professional skills. This article describes the use of a novel intervention of project-based learning -- PjBL with the consultative approach -- to teach Lean Construction and the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Skill Development, Job Skills, Intervention
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Reyes, Encarnación; Gálvez, Jaime C.; Enfedaque, Alejandro – Education Sciences, 2021
This paper presents the experience of a group of Construction and Building Materials lecturers following the introduction of a new contest-based gamification activity aimed at improving interest and learning outcomes in the course. Students' motivation is of key importance in utilizing educational activities for study and learning in the subject.…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Learning Motivation, Active Learning, Cooperative Learning
Olushola V. Emiola-Owolabi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Engineering leaders around the world are concerned about the decrease in skilled professionals in engineering fields. This concern led to the exploration of active learning in two undergraduate civil engineering courses. The purpose of this mixed-methods study is to investigate the impact of active learning on engineering students' motivation to…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Distance Education, Civil Engineering, Virtual Classrooms
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MacLeod, Miles; van der Veen, Jan T. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2020
Can you ask students from three different bachelor programmes to help solve planning and routeing problems for hospitals? In the presented case an interdisciplinary approach was shown to be successful after some redesign. Students from Applied Mathematics, Civil Engineering and Industrial & Engineering Management jointly designed solutions for…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Student Projects, Engineering Education, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Marshall, Jill; Bhasin, Amit; Boyles, Stephen; David, Bernard; James, Rachel; Patrick, Anita – Advances in Engineering Education, 2018
Our study used a natural experiment to compare a project-based cornerstone course with the traditionally-taught introductory course in civil engineering. During the study, two sections of the course were organized around an overarching project, the design of an event center, and the remaining sections used guest lectures, a textbook, and…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Student Projects, Civil Engineering, Student Attitudes
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Pinho-Lopes, Margarida; Macedo, Joaquim – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2016
Since 2007/2008 project-based learning models have been used to deliver two fundamental courses on Geotechnics in University of Aveiro, Portugal. These models have evolved and have encompassed either cooperative or collaborative teamwork. Using data collected in five editions of each course (Soil Mechanics I and Soil Mechanics II), the different…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Active Learning, Student Projects, Engineering Education
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Donohue, Shane – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
The use of audience response systems (ARSs) or "clickers" in higher education has increased over the recent years, predominantly owing to their ability to actively engage students, for promoting individual and group learning, and for providing instantaneous feedback to students and teachers. This paper describes how group-based ARS…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Undergraduate Study, Audience Response Systems
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Oliveira, Paulo C.; Oliveira, Cristina G. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
In this paper, we present a teaching proposal used in an Introductory Physics course to civil engineering students from Porto's Engineering Institute/Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP). The proposal was born from the need to change students' perception and motivation for learning physics. It consists in the use of an integrator…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Introductory Courses, Civil Engineering
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Gavin, K. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
This paper describes the use of project-based learning to teach design skills to civil engineering students at University College Dublin (UCD). The paper first considers the development of problem-based leaning (PBL) as a tool in higher education. The general issues to be considered in the design of the curriculum for a PBL module are reviewed.…
Descriptors: Expertise, Engineering Education, Student Projects, Student Attitudes
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Ahern, A. A. – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2010
This paper describes two case studies where problem-based learning (PBL) has been introduced to undergraduate civil engineering students in University College Dublin. PBL has recently been put in place in the penultimate and final year transport engineering classes in the civil engineering degree in University College Dublin. In this case study,…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Civil Engineering, Case Studies, Teaching Methods