C. Heylen, M. Buyse, J. Sloten, L. Froyen
(2008). MULTIDISCIPLINAIRY TEAMS IN PROJECT-BASED ENGINEERING EDUCATION: AN ADDED VALUE? .
7. In their professional life, engineers often work with colleagues with a different background. By working together in multidisciplinary teams on real life engineering problems during their education, civil and industrial engineering students learn how to benefit from their complementarities. Therefore a cooperation was started between the Engineering Faculty of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and two university colleges (Katholieke Hogeschool BruggeOostende and Groep T Leuven Hogeschool). This was a very positive experience: the students as well as the staff feel that teamwork and multidisciplinary projects enrich the engineering education.
Authors (New):
Christel Heylen
Marie-Paule Buyse
Jos Vander Sloten
Ludo Froyen
Keywords:
Teamwork
multidisciplinary projects
Project-Based Learning
bachelor students
Reference:
Lemaitre, D., Le Prat, R., De Graaf, E. and Bot, L.: Editorial: Focusing on competence. European Journal of Engineering Education, 2006, 31(1), p. 45-53. :
C. Heylen, M. Smet, H. Buelens, J. Vander Sloten, Problem Solving and Engineering Design, introducing bachelor students to engineering practice at K.U.Leuven, European Journal of Engineering Education, 2007, 32 (4), p. 375 – 386. :
C. Heylen, J. Vander Sloten, The engineer as problem-solver and entrepreneur, project-based learning in de bachelor of engineering at university and at university colleges of the Association K.U.Leuven. Proceedings CD-Rom SEFI and IGIP Joint Annual Conference 2007, Joining Forces in Engineering Education Towards Excellence, 7 pages: