Welcome to the PBLE Resource Page

The guide is available to download in a variety of formats. A limited number of printed copies are available from the Engineering Subject Centre .

There are also staff development resources available, based on the guide.

Workshop resources

PBLE held 4 workshops on assessment, group work and mentoring in engineering projects. Resources from the workshops are available below.

Group and Project Work in Engineering Workshop 3rd - 4th September 2003
This workshop was organised by LTSN Engineering and included presentations and resource launches from PBLE and Project Squared. A report on the event including resources and presentations is available from Engineering Subject Centre past events pages.

PBLE/Project Squared Assessment Workshop 10th September 2001

Welcome and introduction to the workshop (Oliver Downing, University of Bradford) [Slides: MS-Powerpoint]
Satisfying QAA (Dave Morley, University of Bradford) [Slides: MS-Powerpoint] [Paper: MS-Word]
Assessing Group Projects (Naomi Tyack, University of Nottingham) [Slides: MS-Powerpoint] [Paper: MS-Word]
Moderation (Dennis Dodds, Bolton Institute) [Slides: MS-Powerpoint](Requires Flash 5.0 from Macromedia) [Paper: MS-Word]
Evaluation and student Feedback (Kathy Carter, University of Nottingham) [Slides: MS-Powerpoint] [Paper: MS-Word]

PBLE/LTSN-Eng Group Projects Workshop 21st November 2001

Welcome and introduction to LTSN Engineering and PBLE (Fiona Lamb, LTSN Engineering and Dr Ban Seng Choo, PBLE) [Slides: MS-Powerpoint][Web Export]
How do you plan projects and put groups together? (Dr Richard Brooks, University of Nottingham) [Slides: MS-PowerPoint][Web Export]
How do you manage groups? (Dr Naomi Tyack, University of Nottingham) [Slides: MS-PowerPoint][Web Export]
How do you cope with possible cheating and plagiarism? (Dr Martin Pitt, University of Sheffield)[Slides: MS-PowerPoint][Web Export] Accompanying Paper: [MS-Word]
Note: The web versions of the slides are Microsoft powerpoint exports and therefore may not play nice with all browsers

PBLE Mentoring Workshop 6th November 2002

Mentoring in Engineering project work (Peter Willmot, University of Loughborough)[Slides: MS-PowerPoint]