Author(s):
Maria Teresa Restivo 
; Fernando Gomes Almeida ; Maria de Fátima Chouzal ; Joaquim Gabriel Mendes ; António Mendes Lopes ; João Pedro Carneiro ; Helena Sofia Lopes
Date: 2004
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/6751
Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
Subject(s): Ciências sociais; Ciências da educação; Métodos de ensino
Description
Instrumentation for Measurements is a course of 3rd year, 2nd semester, in the 5-year Mechanical Engineering degree, run at Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto (FEUP) under the responsibility of the first author, in which around 60% of the time is devoted to 'hands on' laboratory activity, involving a large number of students.
The teachers’ team of this course has a broad range
curricular training, not only in their different degrees but
also in several post graduate fields of specialisation. This
brings a transversal perspective, which is very important
when dealing with the teaching/learning of multidisciplinary matters.
Continuous (theoretical and experimental) assessment has
been used during the last 4 years. It has been carefully
planed and programmed at the very beginning of the
semester, exploring different student capabilities, either
individually or in group.
This paper presents the methodologies that were used and
comments their advantages and disadvantages.
Index Terms - Teaching/learning methodologies, hands on
laboratory, continuous assessment, experimental training.
