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

experiences to every other subject would encourage even more this competences profile, although it will require a greater involvement from the academic institution, as well as the teaching staff. The actual assessment of the curriculum with few coordination between subjects greatly complicates those learning models focused on the student. Concretely, problem-based learning needs support from previous courses, which caused an additional issue for many students who had not applied any of these required knowledge ever before. This was reflected in the answers to open questions belonging to students who had less experience in the practical application of knowledge. Besides, many universities, inside their management structures

Conference Session

Ocean and Marine Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Radian G Belu, Drexel University (Tech.); Irina Nicoleta Ciobanescu Husanu, Drexel University (Tech.)

Tagged Divisions

Ocean and Marine

monitoring. The societal impact of the project, energy scavenging methods, alsomakes students more aware of what engineering can do to address current energy issuesworldwide and how to provide long lasting power supply for environmental monitoring systems.Presently we are modifying the content of the project to address the main concern that thestudents of the project team expressed in their reflection papers, i.e. the level of complexity andthe amount of time needed to complete the project. The project presented above, together withother projects proposed by the authors in the areas of renewable energy, energy harvesting andwireless sensor networks have been used to draw student’s interest in the field of renewableenergy sources, advanced and