PUKHA: a new pedagogical experience

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2007

Authors

A. Barbedo de Magalhães (Author) FEUP; M. Estima (Author) FEUP; B. Almada-Lobo (Author) FEUP

Journal

Title: European Journal of Engineering Education

Vol. 32 No. 6

Pages: 711-719

ISSN: 0304-3797

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Scientific classification

CORDIS: Social sciences > Educational sciences

Other information

Resumo (PT): Society needs responsible leaders and entrepreneurs. CDIO (conceive, design, implement and operate) is a framework for engineering education based on outcomes, more than on contents, that has been adopted by a growing number of engineering educational institutions for producing the next generation of engineering leaders. In order to support engineering students to become entrepreneurs and to bear other concerns than merely technical on today’s rapid changing world, the authors believe the CDIO syllabus needs to be improved, and therefore propose a pre requisite to a useful CDIO perspective: IdEF, standing for Identify, Evaluate and Formulate real problems and needs. Based on this concept, this paper describes a new pedagogical project framework (PUKHA - to project, to undertake, to know how to achieve). Within PUKHA projects, more than 300 students have trained and checked their will, risk, responsibility, communication, leadership and entrepreneurship over the last three years.

Language: Portuguese

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific