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Facilitating S tudent M otivation in Engineering Education through Active Learning M ethods

Facilitating S tudent M otivation in Engineering Education through Active Learning M ethods. Rodrigo Pascual Jiménez Mining Engineering Department , Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile rpascual@ing.puc.cl Pernille Hammar Andersson LearningLab DTU, Technical University of Denmark

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Facilitating S tudent M otivation in Engineering Education through Active Learning M ethods

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  1. Facilitating Student Motivation in Engineering Education through Active Learning Methods Rodrigo Pascual Jiménez MiningEngineeringDepartment, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile rpascual@ing.puc.cl PernilleHammarAndersson LearningLab DTU, Technical University of Denmark pea@llab.dtu.dk

  2. Universidad Católica de Chile • Founded: 1888 • ~21000 students • In 2011 • enrolled ~48% of top scores in the University Admission Test (UAT) • 42% of perfect scores in the UAT that study engineering are in our school Source: en.wikipedia.org, access june 2012

  3. Source: QS University rankings LatinAmerica 2012

  4. Competencecenteredcurriculum • Some skills • effective communication • ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams • engagement in lifelong learning • … Broadknowledge Deepknow-ledge

  5. Mapping Courses Skills

  6. Case study • Physical asset management • Students from: mining, mechanical, electrical, … • Professional competencies: be able to make decisions regarding equipment life cycle • Spares management • Inspection management • Replacement, …

  7. Case study • Project oriented learning • Enhanced student motivation • Open problems, i.e.: • Optimizingcriticalsparesmanagement • Reducingprocessing times in a repair shop • Optimizingcomponentmaintenance-intervals

  8. Publicseminar

  9. On student motivation • Comparison of different motivation and learning theories • Survey: Motivated Strategy for Learning Questionnaire • The first results shows that those methods has an positive impact on student motivation • For more fully information readour paper

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