Description
Engineering education aims to prepare engineering undergraduates for their future professional journey where they will be called on to solve challenges affecting individuals, companies, and society. The European Project Semester (EPS) exposes students to project- and challenge-based learning, paying special attention to international multidisciplinary teamwork, sustainable design, innovative thinking, and project management in order to develop a set of desired professional skills.
The Handbook of Research on Improving Engineering Education With the European Project Semester shares the best practices in engineering education through close examination of the EPS. It describes the adopted learning framework, analyzes how it contributes to the development of skills, reports on the types of challenges proposed to teams, and delivers a set of team-project cases from the network of providers. Covering topics such as engineering ethics, project management, and sustainable behavior, this book is essential to students in engineering, engineers, engineering educators, educational researchers, academic administration and faculty, and academicians.
Author's/Editor's Biography
Benedita Malheiro (Ed.)
Benedita Malheiro holds a five-year degree in Electrical Engineering followed by an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computers Engineering, all from the University of Porto. She is a Coordinator Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department of Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, the School of Engineering of the Polytechnic Institute of Porto, and director of the European Project Semester. She is specialized in engineering education and, as a senior researcher of the Centre of Robotics and Autonomous Systems of INESC TEC, in solving distributed, dynamic, and decentralized problems with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) and distributed computing. She is a member of AAAI, ACM, APPIA (Portuguese Association for AI) and OE, the Portuguese Engineers Association.
Pedro Fuentes-Durá (Ed.)
Pedro Fuentes-Durá received a Ph.D. degree in environmental engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain, participating in several research projects. He trained as an Industrial Chemist with the University of Valencia. He is a Professor at the Nuclear and Chemical Engineering Department, Universitat Politècnica de València, where he has been the Head of International relations and the Head of Business relationships with the School of Design Engineering. He has participated in several innovation projects in higher education and as a committee member in several international events in the framework of higher education. He is the Founder and the Co-Director of Valencia Global and the International Coordinator of the European Project Semester. He is the Director of Open Innovation chair UPV-Istobal.