1. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work C W Chuen 21 May 2002

2. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Rapid development of technology  More challenging  Lifelong learning ability

3. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Planning  Acquiring new knowledge  Solving problems  Analyzing results  Criticizing  Final year projects

4. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work to develop problem solving skills to develop problem solving skills to acquire new knowledge to acquire new knowledge to plan their projects to plan their projects to use discussions to promote learning to use discussions to promote learning to motivate learning using self-assessment to motivate learning using self-assessment  Project work can provide opportunities for students

5. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Three stages  understand the problems  devise different strategies and plans  investigate the impact of project work

6. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Understand the problems  interview student groups (HD, BEng, MEng)  factors affecting project choices interest interest ability ability career career  appropriate means to integrate theories and practice

7. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Understand the problems  not enough understanding of the projects in order to identify the challenges and to plan in advance  affect planning and motivation  tutor support

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9.  Devise different strategies and plans  devise a plan and a timetable  select study environments  good planning helps relaxing  use discussions to promote learning  self-monitor of learning

10. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Devise different strategies and plans  develop problem solving techniques  develop transferable skills

11. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Examples of problem solving skills  break down technique

12. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Examples of problem solving skills  from simple to complex problem

13. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Examples of problem solving skills  backward reasoning

14. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Examples of problem solving skills  particular-to-general analysis  generalize particular items that can yield a general solution to the problem

15. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Examples of problem solving skills  fuzzy problem solving technique  neural problem solving technique  model reference problem solving technique  trail and error approach

16. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Guidelines posted on the internet to help students  to start the project  to search for project information  to use systemic approach  to write up the report  to present the project

17. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  Investigate the impact of project work  Encouraged to use different strategies freely  Asked about the effectiveness of taking these actions

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19.  More than 60% of the students feel confident to solve new problems in the future  10% of the students felt that they were not yet prepared to engage in lifelong learning  10% of the students who did not feel confident to cope with the workload in the future

20. Developing Students to Meet the Changing Challenge of the Profession via Project Work  The experience gained from planning their projects, holding group discussions, self- assessing their own learning and developing their transferable skills can make them feel confident to solve new problems