Raising interest of pupils in engineering education through problem based learning

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.