Targeted post-course survey of project organised course as an example of students' engagement in learning process

The modern way of becoming world-class experts covers the global citizenship education, which allows students from various countries to learn from each other by attending international courses. At the Silesian University of Technology (SUT) the educational program "Clean Fossil and Alternative Fuel Energy", supported by the Knowledge and Innovation Community (KIC), is carried out. In this program, outstanding students from around the world can participate and gain engineering knowledge and skills. Additionally, the KIC initiative is to improve the teachers' qualifications, since they influence young people education. The educators' awareness about available teaching opportunities should follow the international trends. According to UNESCO, "the global citizenship education includes issues such as environmental sustainability that require core transferable skills such as critical thinking, communication, cooperation, problem-solving, conflict resolution, leadership, and advocacy". The idea of the problem-based learning assumes that students acquire the knowledge and gain skills through a sequence of problems, learning materials, and other active learning activities facilitated by the educator. Based on this guidance PBL methodology was applied to project titled "Fundamentals of Municipal Energy". This subject was chosen from the regular courses at SUT conducted in the Polish language. At the end of this project, the targeted post-course survey was conducted. The survey was developed by the educator, who carried out the analysed project, to learn the students’ expectations of the project. This survey consisted of 20 open and closed questions. The continuous assessment should lead to improvement of the educational process, which allows students to gain the skills required for their future careers. In the article, the description of the curse and the results of the targeted post-course survey are presented. The survey's results are promising and indicate that the PBL methodology could be implemented in the project for students enrolled in the KIC MSc program. The PBL implementation should lead to improvement of the educational process in student engagement in learning.