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14th Annual General Assembly and Conference of the International Association of Maritime Universities, IAMU AGA 2013, Constanta, Romania, 26 - 28 October 2013, pp.39-44
© 2020 Proceedings of 14th Annual General Assembly and Conference of the International Association of Maritime Universities, IAMU AGA 2013. All rights reserved.As students learn better and easier by actively participating in the learning process, student-centered learning and teaching environment in engineering programs have become more and more common in higher education. At DEU Maritime Faculty Marine Engineering Department Project Based Learning (PBL) has been applied to senior class students. There has been an ongoing debate about the effectiveness of active learning methods and the number of researches related to the transfer of the skills and knowledge gained by these methods to real life is limited in the literature. A follow up study has been conducted through project team members two years after their graduation. The impacts and effectiveness of Project Based Learning on (1) the programme outcomes of marine engineering department (2)the knowledge, skills and abilities required for ship engineers as listed at “The Occupational Information Network” and (3)the knowledge areas specified in “Project Management Body of Knowledge” guide have been examined. The results revealed that there has been positive impact of PBL on the graduates during their work life.