Resumen de A case for project-based design education
Many engineering curricula are partitioned into laboratory classes and theory classes. Theoreticallecture courses can cover the largest volume of material, but are often criticized for not engagingstudents, and, as a result, instilling little retention of the material. This paper contends that weteach engineering more effectively by integrating the theory with hands-on design projects. Thiscontention, of course, is not new, yet the partition remains in all too many subjects. This paperdescribes an ongoing experiment of adding design laboratories to Harvey Mudd's ComputerEngineering class, historically a purely theoretical subject. It then address some of the benefits andchallenges that may carry over to integrating theory with laboratories in other courses.
