U.Porto, its Faculty of Engineering and PBL approaches

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2014

Authors

Maria Teresa Restivo (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: International Journal of Engineering Pedagogy

Vol. 4 No. 1

Pages: 37-42

Publisher: Kassel University Press GmbH

Indexing

INSPEC

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Social sciences > Educational sciences

FOS: Social sciences > Educational sciences

Other information

Abstract (EN): The University of Porto (U.Porto) was founded in 1911. Its Faculty of Engineering (FEUP) is the largest school of U.Porto. U.Porto and FEUP are very active in research, development and innovation with about 20% of all scientific papers in Portugal among the 15 public Universities in the country. FEUP is also aware of the important role of higher education in training future engineers. U.Porto and FEUP have been following discussions and significant efforts have been made for promoting teacher professional development in order to guaranty new teaching/learning methodologies and initiatives to promote engineering education. Diverse initiatives came out since 2000. This work describes different projects specially developed at FEUP like the EMPE project and the FEUP project will be described and results will be addressed. Also, a global and huge program from U.Porto, iJUP, will be presented as very unifying interdisciplinary program at U.Porto involving together teachers/researchers and students from all its 14 schools, and particularly from FEUP.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

Notes: http://dx.doi.org/10.3991/ijep.v4i1.3261