Universidade do Minho. Centro de Investigação em Educação (CIEd)
Abstract
This paper objective is to identify and analyze the activities developed by Integrated Master of
Industrial Engineering and Management students in a context of Project‐Based Learning (PBL) in the
Calculus curricular unit and discusses learning during the interdisciplinary project development thru
the first semester of 2012/2013. This research is based on a case study developed in the context of
one program of School of Engineering, University of Minho, Portugal. To accomplish this case study
were collected and analyzed documents produced by the students such as preliminary and final
reports, preliminary and final presentations and feedback reports. The results indicate that Calculus
contents were applied a content during the interdisciplinary project. Additionally, it can be said that
contents of curricular unit give support to the decisions taken by the students in the production
system design (the students’ project objective), showing interest and more contents integration
relevance
