Activity overview Engineering Challenges is a ‘cornerstone’ course that provides incoming students – from across the school – with both an introduction to the field of engineering and a framework for their learning over the rest of the five-and-a-half-year undergraduate programme. While the course brings together a significant number of components, pedagogies and learning outcomes, its […]
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 […]