An approach for engineering education at an early stage

In this paper, the effectiveness of our approach for engineering education at an early stage is presented. It is designed for 15 or 16-year-old students who have just begun to take lectures for a specific specialized field of engineering in our college of technology. Here, how to encourage their learning motivation for various fields of engineering becomes important. Therefore, our program was designed by focusing on skills for communication, writing reports and making presentation through an engineering education practice as a project based learning by 4 or 5 students a group. The decision was made through discussion by the group unit. In order to check presence of the difference between generations, the investigation with a program of the same contents has been carried out for three years. By analyzing the answer to the questionnaire and impression in free form answering from 160 students in total every year for inspection of effectiveness, we conclude that our approach is effective not only for the enhancement of student´s learning motivation in the engineering education program but their recognition for importance of the skill acquirement was confirmed.