Application of the PBL Methodology at the B.Sc. in Industrial Electronics and Automation Engineering

This work describes one application of the PBL (Project Based Learning) methodology at the curriculum of the “Industrial Informatics” module of the B.Sc. Degree in Industrial Electronics and Automation, taught at the University College of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz. The choice of this methodology is based on the project orientation expected for the future engineers. Authors intended to reproduce, at reduced scale, the problematic of working in multidisciplinary teams with strict completion times. This approach forced students to get involved in the learning process while carrying out the tasks. During the process, students detected the learning needs by themselves in order to accomplish the project, and had to learn how to apply, in a proactive and autonomous way, the necessary techniques during the project implementation.

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