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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Tammy Yut-Ling Chan; Gustavo Borel Menezes

engineering problems. Pai19 foundthat students who participated in the online quizzes and discussion forums, which wereimplemented on Blackboard Vista course management system, performed better on the midtermand final exams than their peers who did not engage in these activities. Active learning inmechanical engineering has been promoted using on-line course management tools such asmailbox and discussion forums20.Problem-Based LearningEngineering is essentially problem solving. Active learning methods that involve solvingproblems allow students to practice being engineers21. Also, engineers in industry work on case-oriented projects, such as those used in law and business, which have helped students deeplylearn engineering principles22. Graduate

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2013 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

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Nasser Alromaih; Mark Rajai; S. Jimmy Gandhi

demand for entrepreneurship courses from students in Engineering and Sciencefaculties. Since 2000, the “Northern Ireland Centre for Entrepreneurship (NICENT)” hasbeen offering entrepreneurship education to students in the engineering, science, andtechnology disciplines. The University of Cambridge (UK) also offers entrepreneurshipeducation to science/technical students. Moreover, the key engineering schools inNorway offer entrepreneurship courses, having found that about 15% of engineeringstudents take an interest in entrepreneurship 3. Similarly, the Nottingham UniversityBusiness School offers entrepreneurship courses to engineering students taking MBA.The course syllabus includes modules such as entrepreneurship in the 21st century