Student Engagement in a Structured Problem-Based Approach to Learning: A First-Year Electronic Engineering Study Module on Heat Transfer

Application of Project-Based Learning in the first year of an Industrial Engineering Program: lessons learned and challenges

“…They analyzed how strongly teams considered contextual factors in their decisions using both qualitative and quantitative tools. Montero & Gonzalez (2009) applied PBL to Electronic Engineering freshmen. Their objective was to create a heat sink prototype.…”

“…Multiple experiences of PBL use to first-year engineering students can be found in the literature (Kilgore et al, 2007;Lima et al, 2012;Montero & Gonzalez, 2009;Palmer & Hall, 2011). This article describes four years of PBL application during the first semester of Industrial Engineering and points out the results and learning, year after year, as well as remaining challenges.…”

A Project Management System Based on the PMBOK Guide for Student-Centered Learning

“…For appropriate application of the P m BL model to engineering education, P m BL needs a multidisciplinary approach that can provide information and knowledge, as well as certainty, to engineering students dealing with problems with which they are not experienced and that are ill-structured [9]. In addition, under the P m BL environment, teachers or educators are not a source of knowledge, but should instead be the guide or coach facilitating the process of knowledge acquisition for the students [10], [11]. The P t BL model in the engineering school is a kind of P m BL, since project work is problem-based by definition and its process usually deals with problems from real industry sectors.…”

The Master's Thesis: An Opportunity for Fostering Presentation Skills

“…Bearing this in mind, in many countries engineering degrees are planned so that the first years of the programs impart basic knowledge that is mainly focused on mathematics and physics [3], and the later years focus on topics specific to the engineering field the student will specialize in. In the case of electronic engineering, courses are organized, generally, in a highly sequential way.…”

“…From mathematics and physics, students move on to electronic devices and then to systems. Courses such as Power, Digital, and Telecommunication Electronics teach that systems are composed of several devices, each with different purposes and characteristics [3]; in these courses, lecturers help students integrate new knowledge and skills with those acquired in previous courses. This is general description is applicable to many, but not to all, curricula, which generally embody the concept of beginning with basic knowledge and progressing to more complex and specific knowledge.…”