A Framework For Investigating The Application Of Educational Theories In Engineering Education Research

Grounding the design of educational interventions and their analysis in theory allows us to understand and interpret results of interventions and advance educational theories. Moreover, building an understanding of which educational theories are used and how they are used can build a consensus among researchers and mature the research in a field...

Using an industry instrument to trigger the improvement of the transversal competency learning outcomes of engineering graduates

To assist in resolving the perceived lack of transversal competencies (TCs) of engineering graduates by industry, this study investigates the characteristics of transforming an existing industry TC instrument for use in engineering education. The instrument consists of 36 nuanced sub-competencies with the corresponding definitions and...

An investigation on integration of computational thinking into engineering curriculum at delft university of technology

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;...

Cross Institutional Comparison of Curricular Change in Dutch Engineering Bachelor Programmes

The Netherlands has three Universities of Technology. Delft University of Technology<br/>(TU-D) in the West of the country, the University of Eindhoven (TU/e) in the south of<br/>the country and Twente University (UT) in the East of the country. All these<br/>Universities started a bachelor innovation process more or less independently and at<br...