Forensic engineering: Learning by accident. Teaching investigation skills to graduate students using real-life accident simulations

This paper relates the experiences of lecturers at Delft University of Technology in the designing and running of a Master course in Forensic Engineering. Rather than traditional face-to-face lectures, use of real-life evidence-based learning was made in the form of training for and execution of a mock aircraft accident investigation. The...

3, 2, 1, Launch!

It is important that young people who chose to pursue a degree in engineering stick with their choice. Unfortunately students often loose their motivation during their first year. This paper gives an example of how the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of Delft University in The Netherlands manages to keep a large number of freshmen motivated and...

Anytime, Anywhere – The development of an online course in Research Methodologies

Using the Engineering Design Cycle to Develop Integrated Project Based Learning in Aerospace Engineering

Over the past four years the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands has redeveloped its BSc curriculum to mimic an engineering design cycle. Each semester represents a step in the design cycle: exploration; system design; sub-system design; test, analysis & simulation; verification & validation.

Workshop designing engineering education the engineering way

Crossing borders: 6 years of international aerospace student design projects