Problem-Based Learning Approach to Teach Printed Circuit Boards Test

This article presents a return of experience of a collaborative educational approach put in place to build a new course about the test of Printed Circuits Boards (PCB). This course was dedicated to 5th year engineer apprentice students from Montpellier Polytech School. The teaching method followed the “problem-based learning” (PBL) approach, which is a student-centered pedagogy: the students learn in-group about a topic (knowledge and know-how) through the experience of solving an open-ended problem proposed by the teacher. This approach targets two types of objectives: technical with the learning of PCB test methods and educational with the learning of thinking strategies, decision-making, negotiation and collaborative work. A course evaluation form has been created, based on the F2A Louvain University one, to help the students providing classifiable feedback about this “problem based learning” approach.