Following the ENGINITE kick-off meeting held in Limassol, Cyprus, the second coordination meeting of ENGINITE took place in London, UK in March, followed by a training event on Problem-based Learning (PBL) pedagogy. The coordination meeting and training event were held from Monday the 12th to Thursday the 15th of March 2018, at ThinkUP’s premises...
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.
About the Project
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
The project will deliver a web-platform including courses, tools and resources to support and enhance the delivery of the ENGINITE programme.Please visit https://platform.enginite.eu/ for more information about the ENGINITE Platform.
Audience
Training Modules
The training program includes 8 modules, delivered in the following sequential order:
A1 Applied Efficient Quality and Health & Safety Management Systems
A2 Innovation, Entrepreneurial and Intrapreneurial skills
A3 Engineering Systems Thinking: Re-engineering by Simplifying
A4 Project Management in Action
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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Latest News
The 1 st Cyprus National Advisory Board meeting of the ERASMUS+ project ENGINITE was successfully held on Friday, February 16, 2018, at the Cyprus Interaction Lab of the Cyprus University of Technology in Limassol. The National Advisory Board Committee of the ERASMUS+ project ENGINITE is composed of three members: Dr. Despo Ktoridou (Associate Professor, Chairman...
Welcome to the 1st Newsletter of the ERASMUS+ project “ENGINITE: ENGineering and INdustry Innovative Training for Engineers via PBL”. ENGINITE’s main aim is to develop a top notch training programme with a vision to bridge the gap between industry and academia helping to develop more market-ready young engineers. The training programme draws upon the...