Semi-Structured Lab Projects in Communication Engineering Education
- It is generally known that project-based learning is a very important part of engineering education to connect theoretical knowledge with practical work. Students learn to apply their knowledge to real-world challenges as it is the case in their later professional life. If students are not used to project work or the scientific topic is new and relatively complex, they may be overwhelmed. The consequence is that students achieve poor results, are frustrated, and therefore learning success is low. Semi-structured projects are introduced that combine the advantages of structured experiments with projects. The project work is structured into several parts with detailed descriptions of the tasks. In the end, students get similar results to doing a free project, but the success rate is higher due to higher guidance. Therefore, these semi-structured projects are seen to be an appropriate method to guide students to learn how to do project work. The feedback from most students is very positive. Some students with no previous lab experience complained about the project work and wished for more guidance to become familiar with lab work. In sum, the student feedback is encouraging to develop semi-structured projects further.
Author: | Thomas FuhrmannORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON54358.2023.10125244 |
Parent Title (German): | 2023 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 01-04 May 2023, Kuwait |
Publisher: | IEEE |
Document Type: | conference proceeding (article) |
Language: | English |
Year of first Publication: | 2023 |
Release Date: | 2023/05/30 |
Tag: | Communication engineering education; Knowledge engineering; Task analysis |
First Page: | 1 |
Last Page: | 5 |
Institutes: | Fakultät Maschinenbau |
Fakultät Elektro- und Informationstechnik / Labor Optische Übertragungssysteme | |
Begutachtungsstatus: | peer-reviewed |
research focus: | Lebenswissenschaften und Ethik |
Licence (German): | Keine Lizenz - Es gilt das deutsche Urheberrecht: § 53 UrhG |