Abstract
On the project based learning, the author of this abstract (instructor of the course) adopted "Bridge Design Competitions" based on his Statics "Engineering 3311" course. Students in a team of four or five are provided with accessories such as popsicle sticks and wood glue etc. to build their unique bridge design based on the concepts they learned in the classroom, these are namely, distribution of forces, moment couple, support reactions, trusses, zero force members etc.This project based teaching and learning approach was also deployed in our recently funded "Renewable Energy and Sustainability Systems Course (EEL 3287)" which shed some success in terms of students' learning outcome and competencies based assessments.
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