On Tuesday and Wednesday, April 9th and 10th, the 4th ENGINITE Transnational Project meeting took place at the Cyprus Interaction Lab (CUT), in Limassol, Cyprus. The meeting had a two-fold goal: (a) to collect the live feedback of the trainers about the innovative ENGINITE pilot training programme, and (b) to conclude on the project’s...
ENGINITE: ENGineering and INdustry Innovative Training for Engineers via PBL
ENGINITE aims to design and promote a postgraduate Vocational Education and Training (VET) programme based on a Problem Based Learning (PBL) pedagogy and will combine advanced applied academic topics with hands-on aspects, in order to endorse the knowledge and skills of graduate engineers, preparing them for the industry of the 21st century. Via a PBL approach to training, ENGINITE postgraduate vocational training programme will captivate the career and employability skills of the new engineers – among others: innovation, entrepreneurial skills, efficient quality, health and safety management, problem solving, communication and presentation skills – while it will also enhance technical knowledge in critical fields of engineering. Upon the completion of postgraduate VET programme, participants will be able to enter the labor market, lead multidisciplinary teams, and provide added-value and substantial contribution to their organization.
The postgraduate VET programme is addressed to graduate engineers with a degree in biochemical, chemical, electrical, electronic, environmental, food, industrial, mechanical, petroleum, safety engineering and/or of a relevant field. Eligible will also be Chemists and Food Technicians graduates. In particular the target group includes: (a) Graduate Engineers, who seek for a job and/or who wish to follow a post graduate/VET programme; (b) Junior Engineers, who are partly-employed and/or working in a different field and wish to follow a post-graduate/VET programme.The project’s implementation started in November 2017 and will last 2 years.
Programme Specifications
The postgraduate vocational training programme will be based on Problem Based Learning (PBL) pedagogy and will combine advanced applied academic topics with hands-on aspects, to endorse the needs of graduate engineers, preparing them for the industry of the 21st century. Upon the completion of the ENGINITE training programme, the young engineers will gain practical knowledge and experience which is expected to boost significantly their employability skills
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Training Modules
The training program includes 8 modules, delivered in the following sequential order:
A1 Engineering Systems Thinking: Re-engineering by Simplifying
A2 Project Management in Action
A3 Innovation, Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial skills
A4 Applied Efficient Quality and Health & Safety Management Systems
B1 Engineering economics
B2 Product development. From concept to market
B3 Applied Process and Production Optimization
B4 Engineering Logistics and Supply Chain Analysis in practice
Problem-Based Learning (PBL)
The ‘problem’ is the point of departure for Problem-Based Learning (PBL):
The problem triangle
In PBL, learning cannot get started before learners have identified the problem that shall serve as a spingboard for their learning efforts.
In PBL, projects are organized as group work. ‘Projects’ mean ‘student-initiated and student-designed, empirically based investigation activities aimed at solving the problem’. The project is supported by courses but the project is what counts as most important. In other words the project is supported by other courses. High quality PBL presupposes a proper quantitative balance between, and temporal sequencing of, project activities and course activities.
The problem is a driver for the learning process.
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On Wednesday, April 10th 2019, the first ENGINITE multiplier event took place at the Cyprus University Cyprus, in Limassol, Cyprus. The multiplier event aimed at disseminating the ENGINITE european project (https://www.enginite.eu/) and its goals, as well as the ENGINITE postgraduate Vocational Education and Training (VET) programme which was based on Problem Based Learning (PBL)...
The Social Computing Research Centre and the Cyprus Interaction Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology invites you to the final public event of the EU funded project ENGINITE ENGineering and INdustry Innovative Training for Engineers via PBL, entitled: Bridging academia and industry by integrating ‘theory’ with ‘practice’ using the Problem Based Learning approach in Engineering...