Innovative teaching methods in Engineering

Second, structures, practices and methodologies of the current educational systems are not suitable enough to support the learning needs of the Knowledge Society. During the latter half of the past century, international thinking about education began to shift to a new paradigm. This shift was driven by an awareness of massive and on-going social, economic and technological changes, and the exponentially increasing amount of human knowledge being generated as a result. International thinking began to examine questions about the role and purposes of education in a world with an unprecedented degree of complexity, fluidity and uncertainty [2]. Alongside above-mentioned changes, many serious challenges characterise current society. Some authors describe these as wicked problems, because they are highly complex, uncertain, and value-laden [3], spanning multiple domains: social, economic, political, environmental, legal and moral. Thus, it is broadly argued that students (and faculty also) need support to actively develop the capabilities they need to productively engage in this wicked problem solving from an Engineering perspective.