APPLICATION OF PROJECT-BASED LEARNING DIDACTICS FOR A FIRST-YEAR COURSE OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING

Project-Based Learning is a powerful teaching method that transforms traditional education into an engaging, student-centered experience.The National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology in Taiwan encourages the departments to offer the first-year students with a course of professional field exploration enabling them to gain insight into the future development of the people majoring in one's department.This paper presents the experiences of applying project-based learning didactics on the course of professional field development exploration for the first-year electronic engineering students.In the course planning, by some homework assignments, the teacher lets the students experience self-directed learning.So, students can take the initiative in planning and managing their learning.The course arrangement reveals successful result according to the questionnaire result of pre-test and post-test and final reports of many students' thoughts.