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| Title: | Lessons to be learned from industry/university cooperation on undergraduate project work |
| Authors: | Clausen, Trond |
| Issue Date: | 2000 |
| Abstract: | Experiments with cooperative learning started in 1976, and has since 1982 project
work in groups has been the hallmark of the pedagogical approach at Hogskolen i Telemark. This
paper examines some attributes of 18 senior semester projects to provide some feedback for future
adjustments. By estimation, some projects have been labeled "successful", "ordinary" or "failure".
This survey defines some common denominators to classify either of the three categories
mentioned above. "Successful" projects tend to be well chosen, well defined, engineerable, and
generally accepted by the partner's employees. "Failure" projects can be seen to crash because of
too wide scope, too high ambitions, and to ill prepared partner company employees. However, it is
claimed that no project result measured by this crude scale may be used to evaluate the value of
the cooperative learning process as both a learning and personal development tool. |
| Keywords: | Engineering education
University-industry cooperation
Collaboration
Holism
Interdisciplinarity
Project-based learning
Design |
| Document type: | Conference paper |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2282/305 |
| Appears in Collections: | Institutt for elektro, IT og kybernetikk
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