The European Project Semester at ISEP: The Challenge of Educating Global Engineers

Autor/inn/en	Malheiro, Benedita; Silva, Manuel; Ribeiro, Maria Cristina; Guedes, Pedro; Ferreira, Paulo
Titel	The European Project Semester at ISEP: The Challenge of Educating Global Engineers
Quelle	In: European Journal of Engineering Education, 40 (2015) 3, S.328-346 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0304-3797
DOI	10.1080/03043797.2014.960509
Schlagwörter	Engineering Education; Problem Solving; Interdisciplinary Approach; Cultural Pluralism; Teaching Methods; Teamwork; Program Descriptions; Program Implementation; Seminars; International Education; Educational Innovation; Student Projects; Foreign Countries; Cultural Awareness; Global Approach; Comparative Education; Higher Education; Portugal + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ingenieurausbildung; Problemlösen; Fächerübergreifender Unterricht; Fächerverbindender Unterricht; Interdisziplinarität; Kulturpluralismus; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Seminar; Internationale Erziehung; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Schulprojekt; Ausland; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Globales Denken; Vergleichende Erziehungswissenschaft; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen
Abstract	Current engineering education challenges require approaches that promote scientific, technical, design and complementary skills while fostering autonomy, innovation and responsibility. The European Project Semester (EPS) at Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (ISEP) (EPS@ISEP) is a one semester project-based learning programme (30 European Credit Transfer Units (ECTU)) for engineering students from diverse scientific backgrounds and nationalities that intends to address these goals. The students, organised in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, are challenged to solve real multidisciplinary problems during one semester. The EPS package, although on project development (20 ECTU), includes a series of complementary seminars aimed at fostering soft, project-related and engineering transversal skills (10 ECTU). Hence, the students enrolled in this programme improve their transversal skills and learn, together and with the team of supervisors, subjects distinct from their core training. This paper presents the structure, implementation and results of the EPS@ISEP that was created in 2011 to apply the best engineering practices and promote internationalisation and engineering education innovation at ISEP. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01