Technologies of embedded project-based learning for undergraduate engineering students

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to develop a technology for incorporating project work in undergraduate engineering student training. A pedagogical experiment was conducted in the regional universities of Russia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Uzbekistan in 2017-2021 among second-, third- and fourth-year engineering students. 126 students and 14 educators took part in it. To achieve the research goal, the authors used project-based learning, the authors’ technique for changing the content of the subject, and the questionnaire method. The authors designed the surveys in the Google forms service and processed the results with MS Excel. According to the experiment results, it can be argued that the successful implementation of project work in training is available through six techniques determined from the ratio of the time spent on face-to-face and independent study on the subject or learning and extracurricular activities. All the participants of the pedagogical experiment evaluated the techniques positively.