Session Information
02 SES 14 A, A Practice-Based Learning between Vocational and Higher Education from Analytical Findings to Knowledge Utilisation and Change Agendas
Symposium
Contribution
In engineering education similar case activities take place. At Aalborg University, the PBL structure of the engineering study programs, has since the university’s inauguration in 1974, urged the students to solve real life problems in their semester-reports. Each student group is working on problems found in companies or other organisations outside the university. E.g. in the electronics department has had its own satellite program, where the students are working on a satellite that is send into orbit by the European space program. Currently the students are working on the third satellite. This satellite is sponsored by the Danish Coastguard that needed satellite data about the coasts of Greenland that so far has been without coverage of a satellite. In other fields similar problems solving projects are taking place. Through the problem solving the students learn engineering, but just as important the students get accustomed with the problems of project management and cooperation in a group. The benefits of the PBL-system are very obvious in terms of employability, low dropout rates and the facts that most students (85%) finish their studies within the scheduled five years. Henriksen, Lars Bo (2009): Praxis, PBL and the application of knowledge.
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