Abstract:

In Palestine there is a growing recognition for innovative teaching and learning approaches such as Problemt-Based Learning (PBL) in engineering education in order to develop competence graduates.  Traditionally, engineering students have to do laboratory (lab) experiments as part of the curriculum and they should be able to apply their knowledge. According to Kitogo (2011), “today’s graduates have attractive curricula vitae, but practically, their performance is insufficient; it doesn’t match with what they claim to have studied”. According to Case (2011), students in the lecturing mode who followed the traditional instruction are graduating with a good knowledge of fundamental engineering science and computer literacy, but they do not know how to apply that in practice.