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In this paper, the author elaborates about several examples of the multidisciplinary projects on which he was involved throughout his five years as Integrated Master’s student in Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of University of Porto. This self-reflection aims to explain how these projects contributed to enrich, not only his technological and scientific knowledge, but also on how they have influenced his methodology as a student and how it lead to the research environment. The author would like to highlight that the multidisciplinarity of the course fed his motivation to learn and allowed him to established multiple connections between different topics such as mechanics, informatics and electronics.
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Acknowledgements to FEUP - Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, LAETA - Associated Laboratory of Energy, Transport and Aeronautics, INEGI - Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering.
The author would like to especially thank all the UISPA research unit, especially the members of the research team in which he has been working lately.
Finally, special thanks are due to International Society for Engineering Education (IGIP) for supporting the “Young Scientist Award” and for providing the opportunity to self-reflect on all of those experiences and share them with the scientific community.
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Tavares, R. (2017). A Self-Reflection on the Importance of Project Activities in Engineering Education. In: Auer, M., Guralnick, D., Uhomoibhi, J. (eds) Interactive Collaborative Learning. ICL 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 544. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50337-0_40
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