Print Email Facebook Twitter An investigation on integration of computational thinking into engineering curriculum at delft university of technology Title An investigation on integration of computational thinking into engineering curriculum at delft university of technology Author Zhang, X. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Valle Torre, M. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Specht, M.M. (TU Delft Web Information Systems) Contributor Järvinen, Hannu-Matti (editor) Silvestre, Santiago (editor) Llorens, Ariadna (editor) Nagy, Balàzs (editor) Date 2022 Abstract Our life is surrounded by digital devices. Engineering education is one of the cornerstones in higher education for future generations and computational thinking (CT) is deemed as a core component in various engineering curricula. The Delft University of Technology (TU Delft), is the largest technical university in the Netherlands and computing; computational concepts and activities have been integrated into curriculum for years at TU Delft. However, there is not a comprehensive investigation on integration of CT into Engineering Curriculum, this paper presents a case study of Master’s level engineering curricula investigating: 1) to what extend CT components are integrated; 2) in what way CT is interpreted and integrated in the curriculum; 3) what educational and assessment methods have been used. The results show that CT has been largely integrated into the investigated curriculum mostly with lectures being the educational method and programming assignments as a method for the assessment. Our analysis shows that understanding the context and patterns in problems and solutions was important in different courses and engineering disciplines, indicating possible directions for integration of CT into curriculum. Subject Engineering EducationComputational ThinkingCurriculumCase Study To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:c725169d-6752-4209-b379-ce406065406a DOI https://doi.org/10.5821/conference-9788412322262.1230 ISBN 978-84-123222-6-2 Source Proceedings of the 50th Annual Conference Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya · BarcelonaTech (UPC) Event 50th Annual Conference of The European Society for Engineering Education, 2022-09-19 → 2022-09-22, Barcelona, Spain Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2022 X. Zhang, M. Valle Torre, M.M. Specht Files PDF gs8.pdf 1021.34 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:c725169d-6752-4209-b379-ce406065406a/datastream/OBJ/view