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Rodrigo Pascual Jimnez Mining Engineering Department, Pontificia Universidad Catlica de Chile rpascual@ing.puc.cl Pernille Hammar Andersson LearningLab DTU, Technical University of Denmark pea@llab.dtu.dk Facilitating Student Motivation in Engineering Education through Active Learning Methods Slide 2 Universidad Catlica de Chile Founded: 1888 ~21000 students In 2011 enrolled ~48% of top scores in the University Admission Test (UAT) 42% of perfect scores in the UAT that study engineering are in our school Source: en.wikipedia.org, access june 2012en.wikipedia.org Slide 3 Source: QS University rankings Latin America 2012QS University rankings Latin America 2012 DomainRanking Overall250 Social Sciences & Management80 Natural Sciences173 Life Sciences & Medicine152 Engineering & Technology142 Arts & Humanities87 Slide 4 Competence centered curriculum Some skills effective communication ability to function on multi-disciplinary teams engagement in lifelong learning Broad knowledge Deep know- ledge Slide 5 Mapping Skills Courses Slide 6 Case study Physical asset management Students from: mining, mechanical, electrical, Professional competencies: be able to make decisions regarding equipment life cycle Spares management Inspection management Replacement, Slide 7 Case study Project oriented learning Enhanced student motivation Open problems, i.e.: Optimizing critical spares management Reducing processing times in a repair shop Optimizing component maintenance- intervals Slide 8 Public seminar Slide 9 On student motivation Comparison of different motivation and learning theories Survey: Motivated Strategy for Learning Questionnaire The first results shows that those methods has an positive impact on student motivation For more fully information read our paper Slide 10 Likert scale 1-7 Slide 11 Slide 12