TY - JOUR
T1 - Raising interest of pupils in engineering education through problem based learning
AU - Ihsen, Susanne
AU - Schneider, Wolfram
AU - Wallhoff, Frank
AU - Blume, Jürgen
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In 2009 within the Excellence Initiative of the German federal government and the state governments a project called 'LearnING' started at the Technische Universität München. Aim of this project is to trigger the interests of pupils and students towards robotics, cognitive systems and engineering. With the approach of Problem Based Learning gender specific aspects during the implementation of courses in school should be considered and designed gender equitable to get more girls interested in this field. By now two educational modules were implemented, one in primary school and one in secondary school. Both modules were evaluated; the data for the secondary school is already available.
AB - In 2009 within the Excellence Initiative of the German federal government and the state governments a project called 'LearnING' started at the Technische Universität München. Aim of this project is to trigger the interests of pupils and students towards robotics, cognitive systems and engineering. With the approach of Problem Based Learning gender specific aspects during the implementation of courses in school should be considered and designed gender equitable to get more girls interested in this field. By now two educational modules were implemented, one in primary school and one in secondary school. Both modules were evaluated; the data for the secondary school is already available.
KW - Cluster of excellence
KW - Engineering education
KW - Gender and diversity
KW - Problem based learning
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80051593113&partnerID=8YFLogxK
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80051593113
SN - 0949-149X
VL - 27
SP - 789
EP - 794
JO - International Journal of Engineering Education
JF - International Journal of Engineering Education
IS - 4 PART II
ER -