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Karareba, Gilbert; Baillie, Caroline – Education, Citizenship and Social Justice, 2019
We argue for the need for and provide an example of a new form of community-based engineering education in Rwanda. We draw on Bourdieu's theories of field and habitus to frame the arguments for an alternative to the current dominant engineering education model. The proposed community engineering education programme has three key facets including…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Critical Theory, Critical Thinking, Teaching Methods
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Wu, Bin; Abad, Jorge – American Journal of Engineering Education, 2014
This paper reports a problem-based learning model for the training of university students in the area of industrial energy efficiency, and discusses its context, contents, and the results from its implementation. The impact has been significant, with hundreds of university graduates trained and many of them now working in industry, leading their…
Descriptors: Energy, Energy Education, Labor Force Development, Problem Based Learning