Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2026)
As online learning environments become increasingly popular within engineering education, practitioners and researchers seek to enhance teaching and learning by better understanding the factors influencing students’ perceptions. This study aims to explore some of these factors by employing a multi-m…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2026)
Enhancing graduate employability is a growing priority in higher education, yet how to conceptualise and assess it remains contested. This study identifies key limitations in employability assessment within the discipline of engineering based on a systematic review of 26 existing measurement instrum…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2026)
Higher engineering institutions strive towards educating globally competent students, and this article examines curricular approaches to global competence education. Based on qualitative interviews, it explores engineering educators' perspectives on student preparedness, their experiences with globa…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2025)
Over the past decade, the ETHAZI collaborative problem-based model was developed to address the evolving demands of the productive sector and the ongoing restructuring in the labour market and society. Designed to create a dynamic system that prepares individuals for continuous change and emerging c…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2025)
Educators are being challenged to develop transformational learning experiences that link student attainment of sustainability competencies to professional skills required in specific industries. However, these efforts can sometimes be hamstrung by traditional curricula and institutional structures.…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2025)
This study investigates undergraduate microwave engineering students' conceptions of electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation using a phenomenographic approach. An in-depth semi-structured interview was used to examine a cohort of 15 students’ experience of EM wave propagation in the context of microwa…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2025)
Interdisciplinary engineering education (IEE) is gaining traction as engineering practices increasingly acknowledge the need to transcend traditional boundaries given the complexities of globalised systems. IEE, however, faces challenges that underscore uncertainties and different perceptions about …
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2025)
This study investigates the underlying mechanisms of Design Thinking and Project-Based Learning (DT-PBL) in engineering education through a grounded theory approach. Based on classroom observations and semi-structured interviews, four interdependent dimensions—self-confidence, reflective interaction…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2024)
Ethical and sustainable thinking is an important competence in the engineering education to support students’ abilities to act and perform in a responsible manner in corporate contexts, and consequently contribute to a sustainable future. This paper investigates engineering students’ attitudes towar…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2024)
The pedagogical development (PD) for educators in higher engineering education is indispensable to the promotion of educational changes and high-quality teaching and learning necessary to train twenty-first century engineering talents. With the expansion of various PD activities in engineering educa…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2024)
Among the numerous fields permeated by Virtual Reality (VR), this review focuses on education and specifically, engineering education. VR allows engineering students to safely and cost-efficiently experience realistic yet simulated environments otherwise inaccessible, costly and/or dangerous. The fe…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2024)
Serious games are instructional tools that harmonise different pedagogical approaches and pursue specific behavioural and learning outcomes. Characterised by flexibility and complexity, serious games can draw from a vast number of elements and game mechanics. We argue that such adaptability requires…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2023)
This paper reports on the design of an innovative Electrochemistry course, part of a Chemical Science Engineering programme. Teachers have observed that their students’ understanding of electrochemical concepts and phenomena is insufficient to attempt connections to further concepts, and to generate…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2023)
Manufacturing engineers work in teams with a wide range of skills and credentials. Teamwork and collaborative problem solving (CPS) skills enable higher productivity and efficiency. However, these skills are largely absent from engineering education curricula and research in contexts involving multi…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2023)
Year-in-industry schemes provide new or enhanced skills beyond the academic environment, a context for consolidation for the academic skills and a maturity in the approach to subsequent studies. The present work aims to quantify the impact of the year in industry placement scheme on academic outcome…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2022)
Experiential learning (EL) is a process of learning through doing, while experiential education incorporates the pedagogies and structures that support this process. As the benefits of EL have become more evident, experiential engineering education (EEE) efforts like design courses, have increasingl…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2020)
Work-integrated learning (WIL) has become an increasingly conspicuous and valued component of student learning at university. Given the limits to scale for WIL-related internships and placements, other forms of WIL, such as field trips and site visits, have become more common in undergraduate engine…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2020)
Solid waste management is considered to be one of the fastest growing industries in the world because of the environmental and health considerations, limitations on mining operations, product costs, increasing demands on the new materials, products and supply chains. Also, entrepreneurship has emerg…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2014)
The twofold purpose of this study is to identify engineering students' perceptions of a problem-based learning environment and to analyse the influence of their personal situation, general interest in engineering and ability to succeed on their perception, after they were exposed to PBL for the firs…
Published:European Journal of Engineering Education
(2012)
Chemical engineers have played key roles in the growth of the chemical and allied industries in Ghana but indigenous industries that have traditionally been the domain of the informal sector need to be migrated to the formal sector through the entrepreneurship and innovation of chemical engineers. T…
