Handbook of research on improving engineering education with the European Project Semester / Benedita Malheiro, and Pedro Fuentes-Durá, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fuentes-Durá, Pedro, editor.

Malheiro, Benedita, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering--Study and teaching (Higher)--Europe.

Engineering.

Student-centered learning--Europe.

Student-centered learning.

European Project Semester.

Physical Description:

32 PDFs (390 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Hershey, Pennsylvania : IGI Global, [2022]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The handbook of research on improving engineering education with the European Project Semester shares the best practices in engineering education through close examination of the EPS. It describes the adopted learning framework, analyzes how it contributes to the development of skills, reports on the type of challenges proposed to teams, and delivers a set of team-project cases from the network of providers. Covering topics such as engineering ethics, project management, and sustainable behavior, this book is essential to students in engineering, engineers, engineering educators, educational researchers, academic administration and faculty, and academicians.

Contents:

Section 1. European project semester. Chapter 1. European project semester ; Chapter 2. United States participation in the European project semester: an exceptionally successful endeavor

Section 2. Skills and themes. Chapter 3. Teambuilding and efficient teamwork ; Chapter 4. Project planning, management, monitoring, and more ; Chapter 5. Intercultural communication ; Chapter 6. Technical and professional communication in the European project semester ; Chapter 7. Design thinking at EPS: an interdisciplinary and international experience ; Chapter 8. Active learning strategies for sustainable engineering: the case of the European project semester ; Chapter 9. Learning engineering ethics: the EPS contribution ; Chapter 10. Towards human-oriented engineering education: a model of empathetic engineering in the EPS program at the International Faculty of Engineering, Lodz ; Chapter 11. Robotics and the European project semester

Section 3. Case studies. Chapter 12. Project-based learning with EPSUPB: development of a robotic arm with IoT capabilities ; Chapter 13. Bicycle speedometer plus ; Chapter 14. Current inclusive Design projects for social innovation ; Chapter 15. The individual survival unit: transporting patients in a protective and stable environment in disaster scenarios a case study ; Chapter 16. The city as a laboratory: concepts, designs, and experiments in higher education ; Chapter 17. Embedding EPS program in multi-party cooperation at the hague university of applied sciences ; Chapter 18. Design and innovation: furniture for children ; Chapter 19. A fast vs. slow fashion fair on the global impact of local wardrobe choices: promoting sustainable behavior at the University of Antwerp.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-66842-312-X

1-66842-311-1

OCLC:

1304417636