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Natacha Souto-Melgar – Chemical Engineering Education, 2025
This paper describes the combination of problem-based learning (PBL) and simulation tools in the chemical engineering unit operation laboratory course, focusing on heat transfer concepts using a shell-and-tube heat exchanger experiment. This approach has significantly enhanced student learning outcomes by bridging theory with practice, fostering a…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Heat, Problem Based Learning, Critical Thinking
Rehmat, Abeera P.; Hartley, Kendall – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2020
Educators in the twenty-first century need to think of innovative ways to engage and prepare students for current and future challenges while cultivating an interest among students in STEM disciplines. This study sought to investigate the impact of problem-based learning on students' content knowledge and critical thinking towards STEM. This study…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Problem Based Learning, STEM Education, Knowledge Level
Quelhas, Osvaldo Luiz Gonçalves; Lima, Gilson Brito Alves; Ludolf, Nicholas Van-Erven; Meiriño, Marcelo Jasmim; Abreu, Chrystyane; Anholon, Rosley; Vieira Neto, Julio; Rodrigues, Leandro Silva Goulart – International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 2019
Purpose: This paper aims to deal with the skills for sustainable development in engineering courses. The main objective is to identify which competences should be developed in these courses to contribute to the resolution of conflicts related to sustainability, as well as the means used by universities for their development.…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Sustainability, Competency Based Education, Specialists
Leung, Siu Ling; Hargrove, Brianne A.; Marsh, Eric R.; Gregg, Andrea R.; Thole, Karen A. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2020
Today's engineering laboratory education often lacks opportunities for students to practice critical thinking through real-world problems. This particular objective is even harder to achieve through online laboratory experiments. In this article, we summarize our innovation in using a real-world challenge, analyze big data, to empower student data…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Educational Change, Engineering Education
Cargnin-Stieler, Marinez; Malheiro, M. Teresa; Alves, Anabela C.; Lima, Rui M.; Teixeira, Marcelo C. M. – Advances in Engineering Education, 2019
This paper aims to study ways of contributing to the development of Calculus through a Project-Based Learning (PBL) approach, which involves students in their first semester of the Integrated Master's program in Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) at the University of Minho. The study presents the analysis of forty-two interdisciplinary…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Calculus, Problem Based Learning, Engineering Education
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
Nurtanto, Muhammad; Nurhaji, Soffan; Baser, Jamil Abd; Yadin – Online Submission, 2018
Problem Based Learning (PBL) is a learning method considered to be capable of changing the students' perception in facing the challenges of the 21st century. This study was aimed to improve soft skills in the form of critical thinking, motivation, and group dynamics and hard skills in the form of psychomotor ability by applying PBL. This study was…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Vocational Education, Higher Education, 21st Century Skills
English, Lyn D.; Mousoulides, Nicholas G. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2015
Engineering-based modeling activities provide a rich source of meaningful situations that capitalize on and extend students' routine learning. By integrating such activities within existing curricula, students better appreciate how their school learning in mathematics and science applies to problems in the outside world. Furthermore, modeling…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering Education, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
McCrum, Daniel Patrick – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
For a structural engineer, effective communication and interaction with architects cannot be underestimated as a key skill to success throughout their professional career. Structural engineers and architects have to share a common language and understanding of each other in order to achieve the most desirable architectural and structural designs.…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Undergraduate Students, Problem Based Learning, Active Learning
Asunda, Paul A.; Mativo, John – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2017
Part One of this article ("Technology and Engineering Teacher," 75(4), December/January, 2016) presented a process that science, math, engineering, and technology teachers could use to collaborate and design integrated STEM courses. A conceptual framework was discussed that could provide a premise that educators interested in delivery of…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Technology Education, Teaching Methods, Common Core State Standards
Asunda, Paul A.; Mativo, John – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2016
In this first of a two-part series, the authors report that STEM is still mostly science and mathematics, taught separately with little or no attention to technology and engineering. Where connections do get made to technology and engineering, too often they happen through several disconnected projects that lack coherence in content standards and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Technology Education, Teaching Methods, Common Core State Standards
Kunberger, Tanya – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2013
In order to develop the evaluative skills necessary for successful performance of design, a senior, Geotechnical Engineering course was revised to immerse students in the complexity of the design process utilising a project-based learning (PBL) approach to instruction. The student-centred approach stresses self-directed group learning, which…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Course Organization, Educational Change, Engineering Education
Goel, Sanjay – Online Submission, 2011
This paper describes some ideas and experiences with training student engineers in creativity and critical thinking. In our survey, a large majority (82%) of respondents felt that as compared to all other kind of academic engagements, their projects had contributed most to develop their creativity. About 50% had also felt that their projects were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Creativity
Chang, Pei-Fen; Wang, Dau-Chung – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2011
In May 2008, the worst earthquake in more than three decades struck southwest China, killing more than 80,000 people. The complexity of this earthquake makes it an ideal case study to clarify the intertwined issues of ethics in engineering and to help cultivate critical thinking skills. This paper first explores the need to encourage engineering…
Descriptors: Ethical Instruction, Cultural Education, Problem Based Learning, Engineering
Kelley, Todd; Kellam, Nadia – Journal of Technology Education, 2009
Before leaders in technology education are able to identify a theoretical framework upon which a curriculum is to stand, they must first grapple with two opposing views of the purpose of technology education--education for all learners or career/technical education. Dakers (2006) identifies two opposing philosophies that can serve as a framework…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Literacy, Technological Literacy, Technology Education
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