Author(s)

Yuxi Zuo ¹, Nan Zhou ²

Affiliation(s)

¹ Library, Liaoning University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China
² School of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Northeastern University, Shenyang, Liaoning, China

Corresponding Author

Nan Zhou

ABSTRACT

The curriculum is the basic unit of talent cultivation, and curriculum reform has the most direct effect on improving the quality of talent cultivation. Facing the needs of scientific and technological progress and the industrial revolution, developing innovative and complex skills has become the main goal of higher engineering education reform. The PBL model provides an effective way for engineering education reform in China. Problem-based learning (PBL) starts with a problem. It develops problem-solving, exploring, cooperation, communication, and self-growth in students' abilities, which contain grouping, problem presentation, learning and research, and result output steps. Based on analyzing the drawbacks of existing classroom teaching in higher engineering education, the practical implementation plan of PBL reform was proposed. By applying PBL, students' learning interest, team awareness, and self-thinking ability in learning enhanced, and provided a reference for other similar engineering specialty courses.

KEYWORDS

Problem-Based Learning, Engineering Curriculum, Course Design, Assessment Tools, Study Groups

CITE THIS PAPER

Yuxi Zuo, Nan Zhou, Application of Problem-Based Learning in Engineering Education Reform. Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2023) Vol. 6: 71-78. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/curtm.2023.061012.

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