Author: Thomas Eagle

Abstract Activity overview Engineering Challenges is a first-year design course at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC) that challenges multidisciplinary teams of engineering students to develop technology-based solutions to major societal challenges facing Chile.   Independent review Engineering Challenges caters to a large student cohort and combines a wide range of pedagogies and learning outcomes.  Moving […]

Defining features of PUC’s engineering education Like engineering schools across Chile, the Pontifical University of Chile’s Engineering school (PUC Engineering) has historically delivered long (seven-year) undergraduate engineering programmes that were dedicated almost exclusively to mathematical and scientific fundamentals.  The past decade, however, has seen a radical shift in the school’s educational approach.   A shorter five-and-a-half-year undergraduate […]