TY - JOUR
T1 - How can we link teaching with research in our engineering courses? The case of an ecological modelling course in two European Universities
AU - Stamou, Anastasios
AU - Noutsopoulos, Constantinos
AU - Kuhlmann, Anna
AU - Rutschmann, Peter
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, © 2019 SEFI.
PY - 2020/7/3
Y1 - 2020/7/3
N2 - We present a teaching methodology to answer the question ‘How can we link teaching with research in our engineering courses?’ Due to the combination of hybrid Problem Based Learning with Research Tutored/Oriented Teaching, the methodology enables the students to acquire the skills of ‘problem solving’, ‘working in teams’, ‘analytic’, ‘written communication’, ‘planning my own work’, ‘organization’, ‘learning more deeply’, ‘tackling with unfamiliar problems’ and ‘innovation’; the last two are directly related to the Scientific Research Process and are considered important for modern engineers. We apply the methodology in the course ‘Ecological Modelling of Surface Waters’ that we teach in TUM and NTUA following the teaching sequence ‘Scope of modelling – Background knowledge–Simple model–Tutorial–Real case’. Due to its simplicity, the proposed methodology can be easily applied by University researchers, who are usually not familiar with the theoretical aspects of learning.
AB - We present a teaching methodology to answer the question ‘How can we link teaching with research in our engineering courses?’ Due to the combination of hybrid Problem Based Learning with Research Tutored/Oriented Teaching, the methodology enables the students to acquire the skills of ‘problem solving’, ‘working in teams’, ‘analytic’, ‘written communication’, ‘planning my own work’, ‘organization’, ‘learning more deeply’, ‘tackling with unfamiliar problems’ and ‘innovation’; the last two are directly related to the Scientific Research Process and are considered important for modern engineers. We apply the methodology in the course ‘Ecological Modelling of Surface Waters’ that we teach in TUM and NTUA following the teaching sequence ‘Scope of modelling – Background knowledge–Simple model–Tutorial–Real case’. Due to its simplicity, the proposed methodology can be easily applied by University researchers, who are usually not familiar with the theoretical aspects of learning.
KW - Environmental engineering
KW - Problem Based Learning
KW - ecological modelling
KW - research-oriented teaching
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85066135160&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03043797.2019.1620174
DO - 10.1080/03043797.2019.1620174
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85066135160
SN - 0304-3797
VL - 45
SP - 597
EP - 613
JO - European Journal of Engineering Education
JF - European Journal of Engineering Education
IS - 4
ER -