Project-based learning is a style of teaching that makes learning more engaging for students through real-world projects and team opportunities. Though it was tradition for students to sit and passively listen to a teacher, today, project-based learning engages students to actively solve real-world problems through working as a team. By doing so, students can also develop the ability and experience they will need for their best career outside the classroom. Well represented at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, project-based learning opportunities, as in the Interactive Qualifying Projects (IQPs), have students working in teams to solve a problem in science, engineering, and technology. Through the use of developing a website and doing interviews, this project looks at trying to gain a better understanding of health-related IQPs undertaken at WPI since the beginning of project-based learning. To do this, I established these objectives and questions to ask in the interviews :
1. Identify health-related IQPs undertaken at WPI and classify them by project center and theme
2. Understand how project centers come to be involved in health-related IQPs
3. Explore the effect of health-related IQPs on students
4. Examine the ethical challenges of health-related IQPs