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PBL in Engineering Education: All or Nothing

Erik de Graaff, Aalborg University

Erik de Graaff is trained as psychologist and holds a PhD in social sciences. He has been working
with Problem Based learning (PBL) in Maastricht from 1979 till 1990. After completing his PhD he
joined Delft University where he was appointed as associate professor in the field of educational

innovation at the Faculty of Technology Policy and Management. Dr. de Graaff has been a visiting
professor at the University of Newcastle, Australia in 1995 and several times a guest professor at
Aalborg University in Denmark. The collaboration with Aalborg University resulted in an appointment
as full professor at the department of Development and Planning in 2011. Since 2017 he has an
.appointement as adjugeret professor
Dr. de Graaff is widely recognized as an international expert on PBL. He contributed to knowledge and
understanding of higher engineering education with numerous publications and through active
participation in professional organizations like SEFI, IGIP, IFEES and ALE. He has published over 200
articles and papers and he has presented more than 70 keynotes and invited lectures on various
topics related to PBL in higher education, like: Working with PBL, Management of change,
Assessment and evaluation, Methods of applied research and Collaboration between university and
industry. From 2008 untill 2017 he was Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Engineering
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