Traditional teaching methods rely solely on the use of textbooks, but teaching effectiveness
assessment methods have demonstrated that most students taught by this method do not …

Experiential learning (EL) is a process of learning through doing, while experiential
education incorporates the pedagogies and structures that support this process. As the …

Three major challenges, sustainability, the fourth industrial revolution, and employability, will
require new types of engineering programs, to help students develop skills in cross …

In this paper the authors draw on three sequential keynote addresses that they gave at
Active Learning in Engineering Education (ALE) workshops in Copenhagen (2012), Caxias …

Problem-and project-based learning (PBL) has been seen as one of the pedagogical
models to bridge the knowledge gab between education and work. This article reports a …

In 1998, the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) began to offer a 5-year civil
engineering degree that, in the Spanish context, contained an innovative teaching model …

For a structural engineer, effective communication and interaction with architects cannot be
underestimated as a key skill to success throughout their professional career. Structural …

The context of this study is an interdisciplinary project-based course at a large public
university in Scandinavia. The course is taught annually to 3,300 graduate students from all …

This study seeks to explore whether a combination of traditional teaching methods with
project-based learning (PBL) activities can improve the student learning experience in an …

This paper presents the implementation of a learning methodology following a student-
centred approach. The methodology is based on the use of project based and cooperative …