International Symposium on Project Approaches in Engineering Education

The active learning methodology Project Based Learning (PBL) has as main objectives: to involve and motivate students to learn actively while solving an open-ended problem, promoting their creativity, and stimulating their critical thinking Students are organized in teams and are challenged to solve…

Information and communications technology (ICT) has an enormous impact on defining what the classroom and the learning process are in the 21st century. It became necessary to include these resources in the educational environment to improve and make the educational process more efficient. The object…

In response to rapid changes in the economic, productive and technological contexts that redefine the teaching model, as from the 2013-2014 academic year, as from the ETHAZI educational innovation model has been implemented throughout the network of Vocational Training centers in the Basque Country.…

The paper sheds light on the importance of involving students in their learning by examining the process through which the acquisition of, one complementary yet unfamiliar learning tool, FlexSim software is transformed into a prolific learning and teaching experience. The simulation software has bee…

The School of Engineering of the University of Minho offers 15 distinct engineering programs, being Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) one of them. This program includes 45 compulsory courses over a 5-year timeframe period, from which 16 are directly involved in three Project-Based Learning…

PBL has been implemented in many programs in the universities as a need to change pedagogical and learning practices from teacher-centred to student-centred methodologies. Business Administration from Brazil, Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia Fluminense and Industrial Engineering a…