Student Recognition, Use, and Understanding of Engineering for One Planet Competencies and Outcomes in Project-based Learning

Abstract

Campus. The general engineering program in The Polytechnic School takes a project-based pedagogical approach when designing the curriculum. James has previously researched influences for this program design in examinations of the Maker Movement. Previous contributions to ASEE on this subject include conference papers, "Supporting K-12 Student Self-Direction with a Maker Family Ecosystem" (2016) and, "Makers as Adaptive Experts-in-Training: How Maker Design Practices Could Lead to the Engineers of the Future" (2017). He has also performed a case study of the junior-level design course in this program, "Supporting Self-Directed Learning in a Project-Based Embedded Systems Design Course" (2020), which was published in a special edition of IEEE Transactions on Education. James now works as an independent consultant to entrepreneurs and small business owners to help design their ventures as learning-based organizations.