Problem-based learning in teaching electricity economics

Author

Hovila, Jari ; Ristimaki, Tomi ; Laitinen, Kimmo ; Trygg, Petri ; Kuusiluoma, Sampsa ; Korpinen, Leena

Author_Institution

Electr. Power Eng., Tampere Univ. of Technol., Finland

Volume

1

fYear

2000

fDate

6/22/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

559

Abstract

Problem-based learning is one of the latest educational methods. The aim of this paper was to illustrate how PBL has been used in electric power engineering education and what kinds of experiences have been reached. In the department of Electric Power Engineering at Tampere University of Technology (TUT), PBL was used for three different case exercises in the “Energy Economics” course. The problems of the cases were designed to correspond to real-life situations. To encourage the students to solve the cases they were given activity points to examination. The analysis of questionnaires, which were filled in by students, indicates that students liked problem-based learning as a teaching method and that PBL is worth further development

Keywords

educational courses; power engineering education; power system economics; teaching; Electric Power Engineering; Energy Economics course; Tampere University of Technology; educational methods; electric power engineering education; electricity economics teaching; problem-based learning; questionnaires; students; Educational technology; Engineering education; Internet; Marketing and sales; Medical services; Power engineering and energy; Power generation economics; Springs;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power System Technology, 2000. Proceedings. PowerCon 2000. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-6338-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICPST.2000.900118

Filename

900118