• DocumentCode
    2820887
  • Title

    Project based learning activities in engineering education

  • Author

    Andrade, Tiago

  • Author_Institution
    LAETA - Associate Lab. for Energy, Univ. do Porto, Porto, Portugal
  • fYear
    2012
  • fDate
    26-28 Sept. 2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    6
  • Abstract
    In the present work, the author reports examples of his involvement in different teaching/learning methodologies during his five years of the Integrated Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto. The aim is to explain how useful those experiences have been, allowing him to explore many techno-scientific activities within his engineering education while student as well as other transferable skills and later, up to the present, as a professional in academic environment. The author wishes to underline the excellent opportunity he had to practice reflection processes as an essential methodology of his engineering education.
  • Keywords
    educational institutions; engineering education; mechanical engineering; teaching; Faculty of Engineering; Integrated Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering; University of Porto; academic environment; engineering education; project-based learning activities; reflection processes; teaching methodologies; techno-scientific activities; transferable skills; Educational institutions; Employee welfare; Engineering education; Knowledge engineering; Mechanical engineering; Reflection; engineering education; mentoring; multidisciplinary projects; project based learning; reflection process; transferable skills;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Interactive Collaborative Learning (ICL), 2012 15th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Villach
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2425-0
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4673-2426-7
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICL.2012.6402076
  • Filename
    6402076