Developing PBE-oriented curricula in the field of engineering science

Abstract

The paper will at first show, that “Engineering” as vocational profession will not only develop new products and services, but also will be a big part of changing possibilities and consequences. So Engineering is in first a technical discipline with roots in natural science, but it has also a part of social responsibility. The main thesis is, looking to this fact, that future engineers must learn in their study courses both parallel: Constructing and designing AND Responsibility and social communication. As benchmark for this type of curriculum was formulated the “Leonardian Oath” and as consequences, it was developed a PBL-based curriculum for engineering science. The core idea of this concept is, that students only can learn responsibility and social communication by REFLECTING their own construction design-work.