In the subject Project I in the second year of the Degree in Industrial Technology Engineering taught at the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB), subgroups of 3-4 students within groups of 20 students develop a project along a semester. Results of 2 projects are presented related to manufacturing, measurement of parts and the statstcal treatment of data, placing emphasis on cross-curricular issues, recording of oral presentatons and how this helped improving its quality, as well as evaluaton of the subject by the students by means of questonnaires and open-ended questons. | Journal of Technology and Science Education EVALUATION OF PROJECT BASED LEARNING IN THE AREA OF MANUFACTURING AND STATISTICS IN THE DEGREE OF INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY Irene Buj-Corral1, Lluís Marco-Almagro1, Alex Riba2, Joan Vivancos-Calvet1, Xavier Tort-Martorell1 1 ETS d’Enginyeria Industrial de Barcelona. Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya Spain Statstcal Services Centre. University of Reading 2 UK , , , , Received December 2014 Accepted January 2015 Abstract In the subject Project I in the second year of the Degree in Industrial Technology Engineering taught at the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB), subgroups of 3-4 students within groups of 20 students develop a project along a semester. Results of 2 projects are presented related to manufacturing, measurement of parts and the statstcal treatment of data, placing emphasis on cross-curricular issues, recording of oral presentatons and how this helped improving its quality, as well as evaluaton of the subject by the students by means of questonnaires and open-ended questons. Keywords – Project, Oral presentatons, Writen reports, Video recording, Evaluaton. ---------- 1 INTRODUCTION AND AIMS The subject Project I, in the second year of the Degree in Industrial Technology Engineering taught at the School of Industrial Engineering of Barcelona (ETSEIB), is based on a project developed during a whole semester. Students (around 300 in some semesters) choose among a wide list of projects (15 in total) related to diferent areas of industrial engineering, and fnally up to 20 students work on the same project. In the case presented in this paper, two projects are explained. Each one of the 2 projects, with about 20 students, has been divided into subgroups of 3 or 4 people. Members of each team are decided by teachers, in order to minimize the presence of friends within groups. If students do not .
