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What is Project Based Learning (PjBL)

Chapter 10
Handbook of Research on Trends in Product Design and Development: Technological and Organizational Perspectives
An experiential learning process that involves the use of classroom projects to stimulate deep learning through enquiry and experimentation. In the context of design education it involves the students undertaking a design process in response to a detailed brief usually in a way that replicates real world professional practice. Project bases learning requires students to engage in design activities including conceptualisation, reflection, problem solving and exploration of possible solutions and detail resolution. The learning process is defined partly by the final artefact (design) and the success of the methods applied. In the context of teaching engineering design, PjBL allows students to integrate scientific knowledge into a solution-focussed approach encouraging ‘learning through doing’ which entails increased knowledge retention, and facilitates development of skills in the ‘practice’ of engineering’ rather than relying on memorisation of theory.
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Integrating ‘Designerly’ Ways with Engineering Science: A Catalyst for Change within Product Design and Development
Ian de Vere (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) and Gavin Melles (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia)
Copyright: © 2011 |Pages: 22
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-617-9.ch010
Abstract
The fields of design and engineering both contribute to product design and development. Increasingly design teams require an integrated approach in environments where mutual understanding and respect replace traditional professional rivalries. These new synergies both enhance communication and understanding between designers and engineers and lead engineering into new areas of professional activity. Engineers are integral to the product development process, but change in product development and manufacturing requires new responsibilities; design engineers must assume a greater role to achieve successful product realisation. However, to be effective engineers must develop new skills; creative design ability, understanding of societal and environmental impacts and a human-centred approach. These themes, not typically addressed by engineering curricula are evident in a new approach to engineering education - product design engineering. This chapter addresses issues confronting product design and development and examines the emergence of this new engineering professional in response.
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