Learning by teaching: undergraduate engineering students improving a community's response capability to an early warning system
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Author list: Suvannatsiri R., Santichaianant K., Murphy E.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
Publication year: 2015
Journal: European Journal of Engineering Education (0304-3797)
Volume number: 40
Issue number: 1
Start page: 95
End page: 113
Number of pages: 19
ISSN: 0304-3797
eISSN: 1469-5898
Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)
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Abstract
This paper reports on a project in which students designed, constructed and tested a model of an existing early warning system with simulation of debris flow in a context of a landslide. Students also assessed rural community members’ knowledge of this system and subsequently taught them to estimate the time needed for evacuation of the community in the event of a landslide. Participants were four undergraduate students in a civil engineering programme at a university in Thailand, as well as nine community members and three external evaluators. Results illustrate project and problem-based, experiential learning and highlight the real-world applications and development of knowledge and of hard and soft skills. The discussion raises issues of scalability and feasibility for implementation of these types of projects in large undergraduate engineering classes. © 2014, © 2014 SEFI.
Keywords
hands-on-experience, project organized learning
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