Dr. Peter Lawrence will be giving a talk in our Innovative Teaching Series this week. The talk will be of particular interest to faculty, postdocs and grads in Computer Science & Engineering but everyone is welcome to attend:
Design-based learning is a new approach to engineering education that draws upon lessons learned in project-based learning . Emphasis is on motivating an integrated understanding of mathematics, science and engineering knowledge and skills through useful, interesting, and somewhat open-ended, design projects. The move is away from passive lectures towards group learning and design project work.
Specific goals include:
(1) Making learning more enjoyable; (2) Improving knowledge integration between topics; (3) Facilitating group learning and project participation; and (4) Encouraging independent learning and research skills
Speaker: Professor Peter Lawrence, NSERC Chair in Design Engineering UBC, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
This talk will give insights into the benefits (and challenges) of establishing a design-based learning framework for the second year of the undergraduate engineering program at UBC.
For more information about the speaker, please see: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/~peterl/
When:
Thursday, March 9, 2006 - 15:00 to 16:00
Where:
Hugh Dempster Pavilion, Room 310
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