PBL Projects
The tasks for the PBL projects and assignment were given to students during the first week of the academic semester that are to be completed within 12 weeks. The PBL projects for the Introduction to Environmental Engineering course had started since the academic session of 2005/2006. Various topics on environmental issues were given to the students. Initially, in the academic session of 2005/2006 and 2006/2007 a total of ten topics were given to 20 groups of students, thus two groups were working on the same topic. All topics were related to real-life environmental problems that were occurring surrounding them. The aim of having two groups of the same topic is to make comparisons between the groups. Each group had meetings with lecturers on the second, third and the seventh