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EFFECTS OF REDUCING THE TIME SPENT ON TRADITIONAL LECTURES

In engineering, many courses have been around for years and only few changes to the course structure have been made to meet new, and current, demands from the students and from the industry.
Enchancement of Faculty Competence – healthcare and engineering educators on working life periods

Healthcare sector is nowadays more and more moving towards eHealth.
Engaging Complexity and Contradiction - Understanding Formula SAE Teamwork Through Cultural-Historical Activity Theory

Engineering education is in flux with respect to curriculum design and delivery.
Engineering and Design: An integrated course with real world projects

In our institution, Singapore Polytechnic, we have implemented several strategies to integrate various disciplines in our engineering education curriculum to help students identify the relation bet
Enhancing Integrated Learning in Engineering Societies, Teams and Clubs: Case Study of the Maier Student Leadership Program

Engineers in the 21st century must be able to integrate their technical knowledge with the ability to view the larger picture.
Enhancing Students' Capabilities through International Engineering Project

TOPCARES-CDIO (herein referred to as TC) is a CDIO engineering education concept adopted by Dalian Neusoft University of Information (DNUI).
Enhancing Teacher Education and Outreach in Robotics and Digital Design through the CDIO Approach

The Technion has recently established a program under which undergraduates and graduates from all faculties may get full scholarships to study an additional B.Sc.
EXPERIENCES FROM USING OPEN-ENDED AND LIFE-RESEMBLING PROBLEMS IN A MASTER COURSE

Finding the optimum balance between theory and practice is one of the major challenges in higher education, especially on master level.
Experiencing knowledge construction of students in the field of industrial robotics of the DIE-USACH

This paper describes the process that allowed us to evaluate experiencing knowledge construction processes in simulation research on robotic manipulators by students in a course on Foundations of I
Exploration and Practice on Project Architecture with CDIO Initiative for Mechanitronics Engineering Undergraduate

In order to enable the electromechanical engineering undergraduates to train problem-solving in a real life context, improve the cultivating quality of electromechanical engineering talents, and me
Exploration in teaching reform of "microwave circuits and devices" course Based CDIO

According to the concept of constructivism and CDIO engineering education, from the characteristics and teaching reality of "microwave circuits and devices"curriculum , the teaching content of "mic
Exploration of Teaching Reform on Random Signal Analysis Based on CDIO Concept

Based on the CDIO engineering education concept，For traditional teaching pattern of "random signal analysis"，Teaching content and method of random signal analysis are reformed, and the ability of t
Flipping the Classroom: A Module Redesign to Foster Active Learning in Materials Science

Flipped classroom is a learning pedagogy which inverts the traditional learning method of classroom lecture into out-of-classroom self-directed learning.
From problem-based to challenge-based learning – motives, examples, outcomes and success factors

It is increasingly popular in the academic world to state research & innovation problems as “challenges”.
Goal-oriented Modular Teaching Reform based on CDIO Concept

Goal-oriented modular teaching reform based on the concept of CDIO is proposed to meet the cultivation requirements for major of Measurement and Control Technology and Instrument, the academic feat
How to integrate ethical aspects in a technical course - The example Project semester including the bachelor thesis project: Secure Mobile Systems

The aim of the course is to create understanding for how to be an engineer; this is achieved by imitating the situation many engineers face when they are introduced into the workplace.
HOW TO MAKE AN INDUSTRIAL INTERNSHIP AN INTEGRATED LEARNING EXPERIENCE WITH RICH LEARNING OUTCOMES AND SPIN-OFFS

The complex multidisciplinary challenges in our society require engineers who understand and can relate to specialists from other disciplines.
IMPROVING THE CDIO SELF-EVALUATION

One of the cornerstones of CDIO is a continuous improvement strategy.
Industry based projects and cases: A CDIO approach to students’ learning

Learning is much more than a real-time cognitive process. It is an important platform for aspects and skills needed to enable students’ future careers.
International Expectations of Engineering Graduate Attributes

As societal and organizational dynamics change, the skills expected from graduating engineers also change.
Introduction to Engineering as a two-phase course

In the engineering program at Reykjavik University we have been developing for the last four years an „Introduction to Engineering“ course for our first year students.
INVESTIGATION ABOUT GEO-SOCIAL OBSTACLES TO CDIO SKILL DEVELOPMENT IN THE CIVIL ENGINEERING PROGRAMS AT DUYTAN UNIVERSITY (VIETNAM)

After three years of the CDIO deployment in the Faculty of Civil Engineering at Duy Tan University, a certain number of improvements have been accomplished, namely in the students’ creativity, flex
LEARNING STRUCTURES OF CDIO BASED PROJECTS IN CONTEXTS OF DEMOLA

Propositions from universities, according work based learning to improve employability, point out that industry close projects are strongly encouraged.
MULTISITE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS: COMPLEMENTARITY OF MODELS AND PROCESSES FOR QUALITY ENHANCEMENT IN A DISTRIBUTED CONTEXT

Based on a return on experience, this paper describes and analyzes the 20 years application of an ISO standard to manage the quality of a multisite educational institution.
Peer Assessment Tool to Provide Mid-Course Student Feedback

The Canadian Engineering Accreditation Board (CEAB) as well as the CDIO organization, have adopted graduate attributes/learning outcomes upon which engineering schools can evaluate their progress a

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