Project based Learning Application Experience in Engineering Courses: Database Case in the Professional Career of Systems Engineering

César Baluarte-Araya

doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2020.0110316

Abstract

In many universities, training research is applied in courses as a basic element of research and fundamental in the professional training of every student, which result in strengthening and increasing knowledge about certain areas, as well as to achieve skills, competence, abilities and attitudes. The present work shows the formal application experience of the Project Based Learning (ABPr) methodology in Database Course (BD) at the Professional School of Systems Engineering (EPIS) of the National University of San Agustin (UNSA), Arequipa-Peru, accommodating the nature of the course being the theory taught by a teacher and laboratory practices by another teacher. The goal is to apply an active teaching strategy to an engineering training course. The methodology used is Project-Based Learning for a research project training for a real problem in an organization to be developed by each team in the semester, with deliverables that will be evaluated by grade scale and the formative research report assessed through the rubric; the input and feedback that the teacher makes of them serves for the improvement and experience in the training of the student. The results obtained show that the objectives in the training of students were achieved, as well as the development of the competencies related to the course, in addition that the application of ABPr gives good results for courses of an engineering career serving as feedback for the continuous improvement of this course and experience for the implementation of ABPr in other curriculum courses. Concluding that formative research as a pillar of a basic level of research initiation is given in a cross-cutting way in the curriculum courses, that the active teaching strategies properly planned and properly applied to each reality allow to achieve the desired results such as: increase knowledge of the area, strengthen skills, abilities, attitudes as the case of the present.

Highlights

Student training at the university level, in the area of engineering, has in recent years been treated in addition to conforming to international standards such as [1] and other Spanish-speaking standards such as [2],[3] which accredit curricula university is to include in courses of curricular plans the formative research that aims to enable graduates to achieve in their vocational training to base an adequate level of research within their skills to develop knowledge and apply it to change the reality for the good of the society to which they are due; the teacher by including in the course syllable the training research can use teaching strategies [4], [5] appropriate to the nature of the course to achieve the objectives and competences
The objective pursued is to apply the ABPr for the first time formally to the System Engineering Professional Career Database course in solving various real-world problems by the trained work teams; managing to produce reports by the deliverables of established laboratory sessions, the training research report, to increase their skills and abilities to propose solutions in changing environments, interact in situations, take www.ijacsa.thesai.org (IJACSA) International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, Vol 11, No 3, 2020 decisions, work as a team; as it refers [8] in this new knowledge society
The research is descriptive level and the methodology used for development is based on the phases of problem solving, of the scientific method [9] who states that the student allows to develop skills; for the present work adapting and expanding others; the survey technique and its instrument are applied to the questionnaire to obtain the data, systematize it, analyze the results to reach the relevant conclusions pursued by the research

Summary

Introduction

UNSA decided to include in the syllable structure of the courses of the Curriculum Plan of the Professional Schools training research to address the shortcomings of students in knowledge, skills and abilities, making the teacher use the best teaching strategies in teaching learning the institutional educational model by competencies; is so for the Database course the Project-Based Learning methodology is applied to the project of designing a database of a real problem of an organization and that through the software developed using the methodologies, techniques and tools the student manages to validate the elaborate design; delivering the training research report based on the template used that includes items such as: executive summary, introduction, objectives, theoretical framework, methodology, results, conclusions, recommendations, references, annexes, self-assessment; which will be evaluated with the relevant rubric. Sharing, sharing information; organization of information and prepare it using tools appropriate to the project.

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