...James Uhomoibhi; J. Goggins Purpose The purpose of this paper is to focus on a number of initiatives in civil engineering undergraduate programmes at the National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) that allow students to complete engineering projects in the community, enabling them to learn...

... of assignments and improved approaches to teaching. D’Arcy C. Randall can be contacted at: darcyr@mail.utexas.edu © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2012 United States of America Portugal Universities Undergraduates Curricula Engineering Collaboration Inquiry based learning Engineering...

... students the opportunity to be actively involved in making observations, gathering data and interpretation. Perhaps learning how they will learn in the future will turn out to be the undergraduate student’s most lasting benefit of this experiment with creating a learning environment via the Internet. ©...