Project-Based Learning and Design with Simulation

King's Engineering at King’s College London was relaunched in 2020 as a general engineering department. The aim is to deliver innovative engineering education that addresses new technological and societal challenges through an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, and intradisciplinary education. We are reimagining how project-based learning and design can be applied, at scale, in a research-intensive environment and how we can put people at the center of engineering. To support this vision, we are embedding simulation workflows and methodologies within our teaching modules. It allows students to work in agile sprints and fully explore scenarios and iterate design ideas within a multidomain systems environment. MATLAB^® and Simulink^® become both the learning environment and the assessment tool. In this talk, we discuss our pedagogic approach to designing assignments with Simulink and developing the students' modeling and simulation skills. We argue that project-based and practical learning can include hands-on experience of digital artifacts and that the parallels between Model-Based Design and engineering system design help students in their learning.