Using action research to improvement engineering education

In this paper the author summarises the notion of action research and shows how engineering educators can benefit from undertaking collaborative action research projects. The circumstances and setting in which faculty members discuss this type of research and help each other carry out and evaluate their own efforts are discussed. The idea of adding value to what they do by publishing their work and spreading it among other faculty members is also referred to. Some examples of projects are given to show that teachers at technical universities can benefit their teaching via action research while at the same time developing their pedagogical merit portfolio