Teaching Electronics Engineering Technology Design Using Cases: A Student Perspective

For engineering educators, cases are excellent teaching tools which can be effectively used to provide high quality instruction for students with opportunities for exploration of real world situations. Previous research has primarily focused on educators’ evaluation of cases as a pedagogical tool. Evaluations have indicated that the tool positively affects student learning in a variety of ways and recommendations for the extensive use of cases have been made. An exploration of current research indicates very little indication of how engineering students feel about the impact of the case method on their learning. To fill this gap in research this paper presents the students’ perception of the use of cases as a teaching tool. The aim is to enhance engineering education coffers through inclusion of the students’ perspective on case teaching as additional support for the use of cases as an effective teaching tool in engineering education.