Abstract
The Department of Civil & Structural Engineering (JKAS), Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia offers an Introduction to
Environmental Engineering course (KH2173). This is an introductory course for civil engineering students with the main purpose
is to ensure that the students understand the basic engineering and science of environmental pollution. The course applied a PBL
approach in the teaching and learning process, with PBL component constitutes to approximately 30% from the total course
assessment. Team working was applied in the PBL approach with 3 to 5 students in a group. Various PBL topics on
environmental issues were given to or proposed by the students.
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Congress 2011.
Keywords: Department of Civil & Structural Engineering; Introduction to Environmental Engineering; Teaching & Learning; Problem-based
Learning