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Iron Range Engineering Model

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PBL in Engineering Education

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The Iron Range Engineering (IRE) model of PBL, an adaptation of the Aalborg model (Kolmos, Fink, & Krogh, 2004), began delivery in January of 2010. IRE is located in rural northeastern Minnesota in the United States. The PBL curriculum was designed and implemented as an upper-division program delivering the final two years of a four-year engineering bachelor’s degree.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Itasca Community College, USA

    Bart Johnson

  2. Iron Range Engineering Program, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA

    Ron Ulseth

  3. Itasca Community College, USA

    Ron Ulseth

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  1. Aalborg Centre for PBL in Engineering Science and Sustainability under the auspices of UNESCO, Aalborg University, Denmark

    Aida Guerra

  2. Iron Range Engineering Program, Itasca Community College, Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA

    Ronald Ulseth

  3. Aalborg Centre for PBL in Engineering Science and Sustainability under the auspices of UNESCO, Aalborg University, Denmark

    Anette Kolmos

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Johnson, B., Ulseth, R. (2017). Iron Range Engineering Model. In: Guerra, A., Ulseth, R., Kolmos, A. (eds) PBL in Engineering Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-905-8_4

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