Improving engineering students’ technical and professional skills through project-based active and collaborative learning

• Autores: Ning Fang
• Localización: The International journal of engineering education, ISSN-e 0949-149X, Vol. 28, no. 1, 2012, págs. 26-36
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This paper presents a project-based active and collaborative learning approach to improving the technical and professional skills ofengineering students. The approach includes three integrated tasks that students develop and design, rather than simply use them.Task 1 focuses on developing a computer simulation program for machining; Task 2 on developing the associated business plan;and Task 3 on the written and oral presentation of the project. Two examples of student projects are provided to demonstrate whatand how students learned from their projects. The students’ attitudes and experiences with their projects were assessed with aLikert-scaled survey questionnaire. The assessment showed that more than 80% of students responded that the overall experiencewith their projects was ‘positive’ or very ‘positive’, and they ‘agreed’ or ‘very agreed’ that their projects enhanced their teamworkand communication skills, business knowledge, and entrepreneurship skills.