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One of the teacher’s first goals should be
to motivate students to learn. Involving students in the
learning process using project-based learning could be a
useful and powerful tool to prepare the students for
them professional future. As part of a degree course in
Biomedical Engineering, from a Portuguese University,
students were asked to look at society and identify a
possible failure related to the biomedical field. From the
identification of this fault, the project consisted in the
planning and its possible resolution. In this article we
present the case study of a student’s team, whose project
was candidate and winner for a national prize in the
field of health innovation. Despite the particularization
of this case study, the students considered the experience
innovative and simultaneously motivating. They also
highlighted the added value of a project going beyond
the classroom. Therefore, in addition to allowing them to
obtain classification to the curricular unit, this type of
teaching and learning could have a special impact on
civil society.
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Project based learning Motivation Engineering
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Publisher
IEEE