Enhancing Students Learning Skills Through Integrated Course Project Design Model (ICPDM)

Abstract

The perpetually changing technology and global market needs have necessitated imparting lifelong learning skills to students through technical education. For the undergraduate engineering students to become acceptable by industry, their critical thinking and problem solving ability, design and analysis capability, interpersonal and communication skills need to be honed. Through integrated curriculum, the students can pursue learning in a holistic way thus avoiding restrictions imposed by course boundaries and it helps develop positive attitudes for continued successful learning throughout their undergraduate study. An integrated curriculum fosters learning experiences that are designed to be mutually reinforcing and synthesized across traditional subject areas. This calls for certain curriculum reforms and here the authors have proposed integrated course project design model (ICPDM). This paper presents a model ICPDM for integrated course design, which is used for implementation of Integrated Course Project (ICP).