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Souza da Costa, Therezinha; Alberto dos Reis Parise, Jose; Azevedo da Silveira, Marcos; Scavarda do Carmo, Luiz Carlos – 1998
This paper is a report on the teaching experiment conducted in the Introduction to Engineering I course at PUC-Rio's Technical-Scientific Center (CTC) during the two terms of 1997. The idea was to test and develop hands-on teaching methodology as set forth in "Hands-on Teaching and Concurrent Teaching: Relations and Difficulties" (Carmo…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, College Freshmen, Dropout Rate
Roessling, Guido; Trnkova, Jana; Langendorf, Uwe; Tillack, Karin; Muhlhauser, Max – 2002
This paper reports on two key elements of successful online teaching: learner-centric design and harmonization of content and facilities. The paper shows how these two crucial requirements could be fulfilled with great success in a project that involves a non-computing related subject matter (civil engineering) and 31 educators from five European…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Course Content, Distance Education, Foreign Countries