In our rapidly changing society, universities are expected to foster engineering expertise and collaborative abilities in their students. To meet these requirements, our department has developed project-based learning (PBL), which is provided in combination with information literacy education at Kindai University Central Library. A 3-year survey showed that the students’ information literacy improved after exposure to the information literacy education and the PBL. Another 1-year survey indicated that students could well express their own opinions and summarize future challenges. PBL combined with information literacy education is an effective approach to improve students’ collaborative abilities.
