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Transferable skills development through project-based learning in an industrial engineering and management degree
| Resumo: | In the literature, transferable skills refer to the ability to learn and apply knowledge, skills, and attitudes in various professional contexts to solve real-world problems, always taking ethical values into account. Due to job market demands, it becomes imperative to promote these skills in Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) students, and the active learning strategy Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an excellent opportunity to do so. Since 2004/05, the Department of Production and Systems (DPS) of the Engineering School, University of Minho (UM), Portugal, has been implementing PBL with students of the IEM Degree. In each of the three years of this degree, there is a semester-long Curricular Unit (CU) of PBL integrated project in IEM, namely IPIEM I, IPIEM II, and IPIEM III. Each of these projects involves the other CU of the respective semester. The main purpose of this paper is, based on a published framework of 23 transferable skills, to identify the extent to which each of these projects promotes the development of these skills, thus detecting strengths and weaknesses, and proposing possible improvement actions. It also aims to verify whether there is an evolution in the development of some of these skills throughout the IEM Degree. This exploratory study provides valuable teacher-centric insights, highlighting the need for incorporating student perspectives to enrich the understanding of PBL's impact on the educational process. |
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| Autores principais: | Carvalho, Violeta |
| Outros Autores: | Rodrigues, Cristina Maria Santos; Teixeira, S. F. C. F.; Silva, A. M.; Sousa, Rui M.; Costa, Lino; Alves, Anabela Carvalho; Pimentel, Carina Maria Oliveira |
| Assunto: | Active Learning Industrial Engineering and Management Project-Based Learning Transferable Skills |
| Ano: | 2024 |
| País: | Portugal |
| Tipo de documento: | comunicação em conferência |
| Tipo de acesso: | acesso aberto |
| Instituição associada: | Universidade do Minho |
| Idioma: | inglês |
| Origem: | RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho |
| Resumo: | In the literature, transferable skills refer to the ability to learn and apply knowledge, skills, and attitudes in various professional contexts to solve real-world problems, always taking ethical values into account. Due to job market demands, it becomes imperative to promote these skills in Industrial Engineering and Management (IEM) students, and the active learning strategy Project-Based Learning (PBL) is an excellent opportunity to do so. Since 2004/05, the Department of Production and Systems (DPS) of the Engineering School, University of Minho (UM), Portugal, has been implementing PBL with students of the IEM Degree. In each of the three years of this degree, there is a semester-long Curricular Unit (CU) of PBL integrated project in IEM, namely IPIEM I, IPIEM II, and IPIEM III. Each of these projects involves the other CU of the respective semester. The main purpose of this paper is, based on a published framework of 23 transferable skills, to identify the extent to which each of these projects promotes the development of these skills, thus detecting strengths and weaknesses, and proposing possible improvement actions. It also aims to verify whether there is an evolution in the development of some of these skills throughout the IEM Degree. This exploratory study provides valuable teacher-centric insights, highlighting the need for incorporating student perspectives to enrich the understanding of PBL's impact on the educational process. |
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