International Journal of Engineering Education

The authors have developed a methodology for teachers to help them to evaluate the performance of a team of students in engineering project-based courses. The methodology was given the name PAINTER and in this paper we demonstrate it with a case study. We use PAINTER to evaluate an engineering proje…

This study aims to conduct experimental research on the impact of the application of positive instruction in the ‘‘Maker Project Practice’’ courses of vocational high schools on the students’ learning outcome. By purposive sampling, 80 juniors taking the ‘‘Maker Project Practice’’ course in two clas…

This paper evaluates the impact of the early adoption of Industry 4.0 tools and methods (industrial systems that enable many innovative functionalities through their networking and their access to the cyber world) on engineering education. The proposed analysis considers two points of view: Professo…

The objective of this paper is to present a critical literature review of the Building Information Modelling (BIM) methodology and to analyze whether BIM can be considered a Virtual Learning Environment.Aconceptual framework is proposed for using BIM in a university context. A search of documents wa…

Traditional lectures are not effective for teaching practical subjects. Therefore, it is important to develop a sufficient methodology to provide the conceptual and practical aspects of a course to the students. In this paper, we describe the challenges faced in the implementation of active learning…

Requirements of the job market have substantially changed in the recent years while the teaching methods have remained largely the same. Employers find the graduates lacking in teamwork, communication and other soft skills as well as in engineering thinking, engineering intuition and higher order th…

This study aims to explore students' learning effectiveness in energy education that integrates STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) activities and PBL (project-based learning). The subjects of experimental teaching were 32 junior engineering students enrolled in a project-based …

This paper presents a new innovative curriculum model in advanced manufacturing to transform BA graduates to enable them to find good paying jobs in advanced manufacturing. The curriculum model is an accelerated one year certificate program with a total of 25 credits. The certificate program offers …

This study aimedto introducea new approach to identifying nanotechnology competence for college engineering students' career preparation based primarily on competence-based perspectives. While Q methodologyisa powerful pattern analytic for expressing opinions of specific group and gives consideratio…

An inquiry-based curriculum was cooperatively designed by a group of vocational high-school teachers and researchers/teacher educators under the "High Scope Project" funded by the National Science Council of Taiwan. The designated curriculum was implemented to enhance vocational high-school students…

During the last few years of teaching the subject of Graphic Engineering, traditional teaching methods have been used based on lectures and solving any problems as they arose. In the opinion of the authors, this gave a rather compartmentalised overview of engineering design. Students were assessed s…

This study aims to explore the teaching effect of a TRIZ (Teoriya Resheniya Izobretatelskikh Zadatch), an integrated factory practicum in a BOPPPS (Bridge-In, Objective, Pre-Assessment, Participatory Learning, Post-Assessment, and Summary) model in a university in Taiwan. The subjects in this study …

This paper addresses the role that Engineering Master Students may play in contributing tothe development of innovation for enterprises. Based on a formalized tripartite cooperation between a student, an enterprise and a Danish university, the programme combines traditional academic curricula with a…

The 'Learning and Innovation Factory for Integrative Production Education (LF)' at the Vienna University of Technology (VUT) is the basis of the case study presented in this paper. One of the key objectives of the Learning Factory was to develop an immersive learning environment resulting in an inte…

Aalborg University, Denmark, has for a decade run an M.Sc. course in Construction Management in the Building Industry in compliance with the university's general mode of study: Problem Based Learning, project organisation and group work. Recently the programme was reviewed based on questionnaires co…