Evaluating a First-Year Engineering Course for Project Based Learning (PBL) Essentials

Engineering Exploration is a first-year engineering course designed with enduring outcomes of enhancing problem-solving skills, multidisciplinary engineering skills and promoting team work. In order to address all the enduring outcomes of this course, traditional pedagogical technique was found to b...

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Published inProcedia computer science Vol. 172; pp. 364 - 369
Main Author M., Kaushik
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier B.V 2020
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Engineering Exploration
First-year engineering
Gold standard PBL
PBL course design
Engineering Exploration
PBL course design
Gold standard PBL
First-year engineering
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Summary:Engineering Exploration is a first-year engineering course designed with enduring outcomes of enhancing problem-solving skills, multidisciplinary engineering skills and promoting team work. In order to address all the enduring outcomes of this course, traditional pedagogical technique was found to be challenging which motivated the authors to use Project Based Learning (PBL) approach. This paper evaluates the elements of a first-year course titled engineering exploration against gold standard PBL framework (defined by Buck institute for Education) there by identifies and proposes the essentials to be considered while designing a first year PBL course.
ISSN:1877-0509
1877-0509
DOI:10.1016/j.procs.2020.05.056