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THE EPS@ISEP PROGRAMME: A GLOBALISATION AND INTERNATIONALISATION EXPERIENCE

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dc.contributor.authorFerreira, Paulo
dc.contributor.authorMalheiro, Benedita
dc.contributor.authorSilva, Manuel
dc.contributor.authorGuedes, Pedro
dc.contributor.authorJUSTO, Jorge
dc.contributor.authorCastro Ribeiro, Maria Cristina De
dc.contributor.authorDuarte, Abel J.
dc.date.accessioned2022-07-25T10:20:25Z
dc.date.embargo2035
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractHigher Education Institutions (HEI) design and implement globalisation and internationalisation policies to promote the image, expand influence and increase both the number and quality of staff and students. This is especially important for engineering schools competing for the reduced cohort of motivated Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) applicants available yearly. Moreover, to train future engineers, engineering education needs to depart from the traditional teacher-centred paradigm. Student-centred learning is central to maintain high student motivation and to drive the development of hard (scientific and technological) and soft (inter-personal) skills. For students to develop these 21st-century engineering skills, today’s curriculums must embed student-centred pedagogical methods, address the design and implementation of solutions guided by ethics and sustainability, and expose undergraduates to multicultural multidisciplinary teamwork, under strong efficiency constraints.The European Project Semester (EPS) is a project-based, international teamwork initiative, that replaces the design capstone semester of undergraduate engineering degrees. It is offered by a network of 19 HEI located in 12 different European countries. The network develops transnational projects together and exchanges students, staff, ideas, and best practices, expanding the influence of the providers. EPS at the Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto (EPS@ISEP) runs during the spring semester. It provides 30 European Credit Transfer System Units (ECTU), with 20 ECTU assigned to the project module and 10 ECTU equally divided by five support modules: Energy and Sustainable Development, Ethics and Deontology, Foreign Language and Culture, Marketing and Communication, and Project Management and Teamwork. The programme is offered to international and local students, but during its 12-year existence most students were international. The students are placed in teams considering psychological profiles. The multiculturalism and the diversity of skills within teams also foster a more inclusive and enriching learning experience. The sustainability and ethics objectives are requirements to be considered in the solution design and in the choice of technologies and components for the project implementation. The weekly project meetings between the teams and the coaching panel (7 teachers from 6 different departments), are not only pivotal to the project-based learning process, but promote the internal dialogue between departments and scientific areas. The reduced project budget provides a strong creative stimulus, while reinforcing the sustainability criteria, since turnkey solutions and waste are incompatible with a constrained bill of materials. Besides the positive effect of the programme on student training/education, as shown by the grades and the projects' documentation, EPS@ISEP has strongly influenced the teacher's skills and performance, as attested by the number of programme-related publications and its influence on other courses and modules offered by ISEP. EPS@ISEP is an effective low-cost programme that acts as a testbed and catalyst in the process of bringing engineering education into the 21st century, following sound ethical and sustainability criteria. EPS@ISEP contributes to the globalisation and internationalisation of ISEP as well as to the dissemination and adoption of best practices in engineering education.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.doi10.21125/edulearn.2022.1262pt_PT
dc.identifier.isbn978-84-09-42484-9
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.22/20707
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
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dc.publisherIATEDpt_PT
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dc.subjectCapstone design semesterpt_PT
dc.subjectEngineering educationpt_PT
dc.subjectEuropean Project Semesterpt_PT
dc.subjectEthicspt_PT
dc.subjectGlobalisationpt_PT
dc.subjectInternationalisationpt_PT
dc.subjectMulticultural teamworkpt_PT
dc.titleTHE EPS@ISEP PROGRAMME: A GLOBALISATION AND INTERNATIONALISATION EXPERIENCEpt_PT
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oaire.citation.titleEDULEARN22 Proceedings, 14th International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologiespt_PT
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