Developing Global Engineers Through Interdisciplinary PBL and Design Thinking

Goudarz Poursharif; Tamer Panagiotis Doss; Rebecca Broadbent; Gillian Knight

doi:10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453869

Developing Global Engineers Through Interdisciplinary PBL and Design Thinking

Goudarz Poursharif^*, Tamer Panagiotis Doss, Rebecca Broadbent, Gillian Knight

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Abstract

From December 2018 to September 2019, academics from different subject groups and professional staff from the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPS) at Aston University worked together to design and implement the first interdisciplinary Problem Based Learning (PBL) module within the College. This module integrated key knowledge related to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and real-life problems from the Engineers without Borders (EWB) UK and was designed to enhance the student’s critical thinking and problem-solving skills. This work will detail how this initiative was pioneered at Aston University to integrate SDGs, sustainable engineering, ethics, and engineering design principles into the engineering curricula using interdisciplinary PBL and design thinking, followed by the qualitative and quantitative evaluation of the outcomes of the initiative.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021
Editors	Thomas Klinger, Christian Kollmitzer, Andreas Pester
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	194-198
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-7281-8478-4
ISBN (Print)	978-1-7281-8479-1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453869
Publication status	Published - 18 Jun 2021
Event	2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) - Vienna, Austria Duration: 21 Apr 2021 → 23 Apr 2021 Conference number: 2021

Conference

Conference	2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)
Abbreviated title	EDUCON
Country/Territory	Austria
City	Vienna
Period	21/04/21 → 23/04/21

Keywords

Design Thinking
Global Engineering
interdisciplinary
Problem Based Learning (PBL)
Sustainable Development
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Wicked Problems

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Poursharif, G , Doss, TP , Broadbent, R & Knight, G 2021, Developing Global Engineers Through Interdisciplinary PBL and Design Thinking. in T Klinger, C Kollmitzer & A Pester (eds), Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021., 9453869, IEEE, pp. 194-198, 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), Vienna, Austria, 21/04/21. https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON46332.2021.9453869

Developing Global Engineers Through Interdisciplinary PBL and Design Thinking. / Poursharif, Goudarz ; Doss, Tamer Panagiotis ; Broadbent, Rebecca et al.
Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference, EDUCON 2021. ed. / Thomas Klinger; Christian Kollmitzer; Andreas Pester. IEEE, 2021. p. 194-198 9453869.

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