Enhancing the engineering curriculum through project-based learning
Enhancing the engineering curriculum through project-based learning
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通过基于项目的学习加强工程课程
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2002
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S. Esche
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H. Hadim;S. Esche
基于项目的学习(PBL)是一种在工程教育界日益受到关注的教学方法。PBL的好处包括加强学生在学习过程中的参与(主动学习和自学)，增强沟通技能，解决更广泛的学习风格，以及促进批判性和主动性思维。PBL还促进了工程专业毕业生所需的许多“软技能”的发展，这一点体现在2000年的欧洲经济技术援助计划中。例如，有效的团队合作技能、项目管理、沟通、伦理学、工程经济学等。史蒂文斯理工学院的本科工程课程进行了重大修订，以反映加强传统讲授课程的最新趋势，在整个教育计划中既有设计脊梁，又有实验室经验。基于项目的学习也被整合到整个课程中。本文介绍了PBL的初步实施及其在一年级固体力学课程和一门机械与机械动力学初级课程中的初步评估。
Project-based learning (PBL) is an instructional approach that is gaining increasing interest within the engineering education community. The benefits of PBL include enhanced student participation in the learning process (active learning and self-learning), enhanced communication skills, addressing of a wider set of learning styles, and promotion of critical and proactive thinking. PBL also facilitates the development of many of the "soft skills" demanded from engineering graduates, as embodied in the ABET EC 2000. Examples include effective teaming skills, project management, communications, ethics, engineering economics, etc. At Stevens Institute of Technology the undergraduate engineering curriculum has undergone significant revisions to reflect the latest trend towards enhancement of traditional lecture-based courses with both a design spine and a laboratory experience propagating through the entire educational program. Project-based learning is also being integrated throughout the curriculum. An initial implementation of PBL and its preliminary assessment in a freshman-level course on Mechanics of Solids and a junior-level course on Mechanisms and Machine Dynamics is presented.