Competence-Enhancing Knowledge Transfer of Basic Research Content: Project-Based Learning in Engineering Studies

This paper presents the conceptual and didactic planning as well as the implementation and empirical monitoring of a semester-long project including an accompanying seminar, using the design-based research approach. The aim of the project was to convey sustainability-relevant contents of basic research to engineering students in a way that improves competence. The results of the qualitative and quantitative empirical approaches show the strengths and limitations of the didactic design. Furthermore, optimization suggestions for the re-design are presented.