Short Experimental Ceramic Projects to Incentivise Mechanical Engineering Students

International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy

ARTICLE

Jorge Lino Alves¹  Teresa Pereira Duarte¹ 

[1] Universidade do Porto

关键词: Engineering education;    mechanical engineers;    ceramic materials;    project based learning.;   

DOI  :  10.3991/ijep.v2i2.2088

来源: International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP), Kassel University Press

【 摘 要 】

Considerable efforts of the teaching community have been directed to capture students’ attention during university classes. It is well known that when students enter University they are extremely familiar with all the informatics tools, specially, finding information on the World Wide Web and doing funny power point presentations. Although this is a good tool for the first rapid knowledge and communication, a deeper study is always required. Considering students’ low sensitivity to technological problems due to their immaturity, introducing methodologies to capture their concentration and motivation to learn is a key factor for the development of fundamental competences. After many years of teaching a course about ceramics, polymers and composite materials in the Integrated Master in Mechanical Engineering of the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal, the authors seek to continuously introduce project based learning methodologies to improve their students’ grades and competences. One of the main innovations introduced in recent years and emphasized in the academic year of 2011/12 is a practical work (short project) that uses all the experimental facilities available at FEUP and INEGI (research institute in mechanical engineering field, located on the FEUP campus). With this experimental project, the students’ enrolment was enhanced with a better knowledge about the ceramics subject and the skills related to the CDIO (Conceive-Design-ImplementOperate) competences.

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