Problem-Based Learning and Continuing Professional Development

Abstract

This proposal is intended, on the one hand, to strengthen the interrelationship betweenuniversities and firms and society in general, and study in depth the complementaritiesbetween engineering and management, on the other. Thus it starts from the development, atthe university level, of methodologies of teaching/learning based on problem resolution(problem-based learning), but extending the strategic management process beyond theanalysis of opportunities, settlement of goals and strategy outline, in order to implement theproposed solutions and monitor and control their impacts on decision efficiency. This willsupport the definition of new intervention ways, turning firms into privileged laboratories toexperiment learning contents and methodologies. This subject strictly relates to the chosentopic because it consists in a teaching/learning methodology with mutual implications, whichresults will cast on universitiesŽ and firmsŽ environment.