Título: Student engagement with statistical design of experiments by active learning projects
Autor: Joao, Isabel; Silva, Joao
Resumen: [EN] This paper illustrates the use of design of experiments in an active learning
environment in a new Master course in Quality and Environmental
Engineering at a higher education institution in Portugal. The study took
place in the unit of Advanced Techniques for Quality. The aim of this work is
to explain how in an active learning environment the students worked on
projects designed to use fractional factorial designs in order to improve a
system including the impact that the approach had on students. Twelve
master students took part of the classroom projects. Three groups of students
worked on projects, created and developed by them contributing to increase
their commitment and enthusiasm. In a classroom session the students made
a presentation and the results were discussed. Each group also produced a
video with the planning and execution of the fractional factorial designs
which was helpful to start the debate. The active learning approach required
that the students developed their own projects and decide when and how to
do the experiments. Taking the responsibility of their activities was very
enriching forcing the students to think about the things they did and
questioning some of their own decisions