Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Grimsley Michaeli PE, Old Dominion University

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

. ODU is uniquely positioned to support these goals aims due to its strategiclocation in the southeastern Virginia, home of the largest naval base and third largest volumeport on the U.S. east coast. The region hosts the largest concentration of ship repair andmaintenance industries in the U.S. This academic program is designed to attract brightstudents early, engage them in a multi-disciplinary, marine-related engineering andtechnology curriculum, provide project-based learning and internship experiences that areboth exciting and relevant to ensure student retention, and produce highly employablegraduates to the marine industry. One of the new courses developed under ODU’s marineengineering and technology undergraduate program is an

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carlos Efrén Mora, La Laguna University; Jorge Martin-Gutierrez, Universidad de La Laguna; Beatriz Añorbe-Diaz, Universidad de La Laguna; REYES CARRAU MELLADO, Universidad La Laguna; Antonio González Marrero, University of La Laguna

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

implementation of active learning environments in engineeringdegrees has been heterogeneous, opting in the vast majority of cases for a combination ofmethodologies. Mills y Treagust9 conclude in their study that an adequate solution is adoptinga mixed methodology which combines the use of conventional classroom teaching for theearlier courses and problem-based learning for the advanced ones. Heitmann10 goes evenfurther, considering that a curriculum set by projects and problem-based learning may satisfyany demand of knowledge, competence and attitudes required from engineering graduates.Therefore, the design of a suitable curriculum may not just get limited to the use of thesemethodologies but also can contemplate the use of any kind of active learning