Journal of Engineering Science and Technology (Apr 2013)

A BLUEPRINT FOR AN INTEGRATED PROJECT BASED LEARNING FRAMEWORK IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION: A CASE STUDY AT TAYLOR'S UNIVERSITY

  • MARWAN M. SHAMEL,
  • ABDULKAREEM SH. MAHDI AL-OBAIDI,
  • SATESH NAMASIVAYAM,
  • EDWIN CHUNG,
  • MUSHTAK AL-ATABI

Journal volume & issue
Vol. Sp. Iss. on Eng. Edu, no. April 2013
pp. 8 – 18

Abstract

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As a means to produce highly sought after graduates, education institutions are now turning to Project-Based Learning (PjBL). The road to a successful implementation of PjBL at the institutional level is lined with challenges and has deterred many. One of the major challenges is the number of projects needed to sustain such an implementation. As a means to overcome this, an integrated PjBL framework is proposed. It is observed that this framework makes it very obvious to staff working on a research project that they could leverage on students in the various design modules by carving out different aspects of their research projects into smaller projects that could be offered as student projects. In doing so, staff research workload and the need to develop projects to support PjBL are no longer seen as separate workload but are synergistic.

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