Study Strategies for Engineering Students at DTU

Hans Peter Christensen

Study Strategies for Engineering Students at DTU

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The study strategies of first year Master students are investigated at DTU fall 1999 - spring 2002. The results show that the students study less than their teachers expect. And they spend most time on activities not leading to deep understanding and engineering competencies. The students spend almost half of their study time on theoretical calculations and only little on authentic problems. They attend many lectures but read very little. This may be a reasonable response to the teaching and examination they encounter; but not with respect to learning. Changing the teaching structure at DTU has activated the students, but not significantly increased their independent studying.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Renaissance Engineer of Tomorrow : Proceedings of the 30th SEFI Annual Conference
Editors	Cladio Bori, Tor-Ulf Weck
Publisher	Edizioni Polistampa
Publication date	2002
Publication status	Published - 2002
Event	30th SEFI Annual Conference: SEFIrenze 2002 - Firenze, Italy Duration: 8 Sept 2002 → 11 Sept 2002 Conference number: 30

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Conference	30th SEFI Annual Conference
Number	30
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Firenze
Period	08/09/2002 → 11/09/2002

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