Exploring PBL as a New Learning Context in Engineering Education

Abstract

This paper explores the experience of engineering students in an innovative context, namely, Problem-Based Learning (PBL). It first describes some particular details of PBL framework implementation at the BSc Degree in Software Engineering, an English-taught Honours Programme at the Faculty of Computers, Informatics, and Microelectronics (FCIM), Technical University of Moldova (TUM). The research also addresses some specific aspects of its implementation, preparation for collaboration, milestones, working processes, guiding sessions, etc. A comparative study between the 2022 and 2021 editions of BSc graduates in Software Engineering was conducted to identify the efficiency of several dimensions of PBL as one of the most recently adopted learning environments at TUM.