Carvalho, José AugustoMendes, Andre C.Brito, ThadeuLima, José2022-04-052022-04-052021Carvalho, José Augusto; Mendes, Andre; Brito, Thadeu; Lima, José (2021). Real airplane cockpit development applied to engineering education: a project based learning approach. In Pereira, Ana I.; Fernandes, Florbela P.; Coelho, João Paulo; Teixeira, João Paulo; Pacheco, Maria F.; Alves, Paulo; Lopes, Rui Pedro (Eds.) Optimization, learning algorithms and applications: first International Conference, OL2A 2021. Cham: Springer Nature. p. 649-656. ISBN 978-3-030-91884-2978-3-030-91884-2http://hdl.handle.net/10198/25355Engineering education, the process of teaching knowledge and principles to the professional practice of engineering, can be done by resorting to several methodologies. Project Based Learning is a teaching method that allows students to get knowledge and skills by developing and solving complex problems or challenges, supported by a supervisor. In the presented work, a real airplane cockpit development is used as a case study for Mechanical, Mechatronics, Electrical, and Computer Science courses. Students are encouraged to develop modules to be applied in the cockpit and further integrated with other ones.engFlight simulatorXPlaneEngineering educationconference paper10.1007/978-3-030-91885-9_48