TY - GEN
T1 - Proceedings from research as a new learning outcome in undergrad engineering programs
AU - Murray, Victor
AU - Matsuno, Cecilia
AU - Montes, Hernan
AU - Bejarano, Alberto
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 IEEE.
PY - 2016/4/12
Y1 - 2016/4/12
N2 - We present the new results on the methodology applied at the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC), Lima, Peru, to train undergrad engineering students to participate in advanced research projects starting at the freshman year. Using this methodology, started in 2013, undergrad students at UTEC start taking mandatory engineering semester projects not related to any specific course but addressed to solve real world problems. At the end of each semester, the best students in both performance and research skills are invited to participate in advanced research projects, the best students developing products are invited to develop advanced engineering solutions or to create a business plan to start up technology enterprises. In this manuscript, we present the current performance of the first students trained using this methodology, and the case of a new group of students who were joined a year later. All of them are the authors in the proceedings of international conferences after oral presentations of their research. Also, the youngest students took a third place in the international IEEE student paper contest in Latin America.
AB - We present the new results on the methodology applied at the Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología (UTEC), Lima, Peru, to train undergrad engineering students to participate in advanced research projects starting at the freshman year. Using this methodology, started in 2013, undergrad students at UTEC start taking mandatory engineering semester projects not related to any specific course but addressed to solve real world problems. At the end of each semester, the best students in both performance and research skills are invited to participate in advanced research projects, the best students developing products are invited to develop advanced engineering solutions or to create a business plan to start up technology enterprises. In this manuscript, we present the current performance of the first students trained using this methodology, and the case of a new group of students who were joined a year later. All of them are the authors in the proceedings of international conferences after oral presentations of their research. Also, the youngest students took a third place in the international IEEE student paper contest in Latin America.
KW - Project-based learning
KW - research and development
KW - soft skills
KW - Teaching methodology
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84982845652&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICEED.2015.7451496
DO - 10.1109/ICEED.2015.7451496
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84982845652
T3 - 2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEED 2015
SP - 73
EP - 78
BT - 2015 IEEE 7th International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEED 2015
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 7th IEEE International Conference on Engineering Education, ICEED 2015
Y2 - 17 November 2015 through 18 November 2015
ER -