| Objectives |
- The students are able to analyze a problem area, e.g. "Avoiding plastics in the sea", identify plastics and plastic products involved, select a subaspect and develop a sustainable problem solution proposal using a plastics technology and present this in a comprehensible manner.
- The students are able to describe the different sustainability dimensions of their solution.
- The students are able to organize themselves independently in a team in a goal-oriented manner, depending on their previous knowledge, define subtasks and work through them individually as well as bring them back together on schedule (project management).
- Students can develop team cooperation and promote a good team culture.
- Students strengthen self-management, i.e. for example the ability to motivate themselves as well as setting and realizing personal goals (self-initiative), cooperation and communication skills as well as their expert knowledge of plastics and products made from them.
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| Subject |
The first PBL project is intended to enable our newcomers to analyze a plastics-related task in a team of up to 6 students, accompanied by a professor or lecturer of plastics engineering, in a low-threshold way, to define and work through individual subtasks and finally to present a comprehensible solution as a team.
With this first PBL project, we want to actively strengthen the intrinsic motivation of our newcomers right at the beginning of their studies, in accordance with the theory of self-determination according to Deci and Ryan, by actively promoting the psychological needs for "autonomy, social integration and experience of competence".
In addition, social competencies and personal competencies are also trained through practical engagement with the set topic and independent group work.
In addition, the students can receive content-related impulses from teachers from the university or experts from industry, supplemented by excursions to industrial companies.
In addition, small practical units can be completed, e.g. at simple plastics processing plants, in order to simulate a simple recycling cycle and to derive challenges for mechanical recycling from this.
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