Monitoring communication competence in an innovative context of engineering project management learning

Author

Colsa, Ángel Uruburu ; Moreno-Romero, Ana ; Ortiz-Marcos, Isabel ; Cobo-Benita, José Ramón

Author_Institution

Organizational Eng. & Project Manage. Dept., Tech. Univ. of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

fYear

2012

fDate

17-20 April 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

7

Abstract

This document presents an innovative, formal educational initiative that is aimed at enhancing the development of engineering students´ specific competences. The subject of project management is the common theoretical and practical framework that articulates an experience that is carried out by multidisciplinary groups. Full utilization of Web 2.0 platforms and Project Based Learning constitutes the applied methodology. More specifically, this study focuses on monitoring communication competence when working in virtual environments, providing an ad-hoc rubric as a final result.

Keywords

Internet; computer aided instruction; engineering education; innovation management; monitoring; project management; student experiments; virtual reality; Web 2.0 platforms; ad hoc rubric; communication competence monitoring; engineering project management learning; engineering students; formal educational initiative; innovative context; project based learning; virtual environments; Context; Educational institutions; Problem-solving; Project management; Virtual environments; communication competence; communication rubric; competence development in project management; interdisciplinary learning; virtual learning experience;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 2012 IEEE

Conference_Location

Marrakech

ISSN

2165-9559

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-1457-2

Electronic_ISBN

2165-9559

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/EDUCON.2012.6201161

Filename

6201161