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Since 2011, we have been educating mentor teachers at Obuda University Trefort Agoston Centre for Engineering Education - OU TACEE. Mentor teachers can support the preparation process of our engineering teacher students in secondary vocational schools by coaching their teaching practice. I am responsible for teaching six subjects. In the first semester I gave examples on how to create good presentations...
This paper proposes a new web platform for educational activities for helping in the experimental work and the professional development of engineering students. The fundamental idea is to connect conventional theory study spaces, such as the classroom and home, through the web platform proposed with experimental training tools in the hands-on laboratory. What is proposed is a new focus on classroom...
Advances in engineering methods and technology, modern system complexity, and the need to work across cultures and multiple time zones have influenced significant change in the practice of engineering. The same cannot be said of engineering education. This paper describes the Digital Home case study project that covers full life-cycle development of a software product (project management, requirements...
This paper describes research 1) to examine the impact of the Premier Award for Excellence in Engineering Education Courseware on the faculty members who developed and used award-winning courseware with their students and 2) to examine how the rewards system within higher education has changed in its valuation of innovative teaching. A case study was conducted with the faculty members who won the...
The primary goal of this mini-workshop is to assist participants in creating Inquiry Based Learning Activities (IBLAs) that promote better conceptual understanding for their students. This is part of more general goal of transforming engineering classrooms into more interactive formats that promote student engagement and lead to improved student outcomes. Specifically the workshop will introduce participants...
In this study, we report on the student experience at Olin College, a small undergraduate university in the United States with an explicit mission to transform engineering education. We employ a highly narrative approach to situate students' individual experiences within their larger learning trajectories and use them as a lens through which we view the accounts of their time at college. We highlight...
Understanding individual classroom culture is essential for constructing effective learning and teaching contexts. Largely underutilized in STEM classrooms to date, discourse analysis can serve as a tool to uncover, understand, and shape unique classroom culture. Used as a reflective tool, discourse analysis can enhance pedagogical understanding of quality and quantity of student participation and...
Engineering statics is a gateway course in engineering education that prepares students for subsequent courses such as dynamics and mechanics of materials. However, students may not explicitly voice their concerns or challenges encountered when trying to understand the material due to their unfamiliarity with engineering concepts in statics. Therefore, it is important to explore different venues that...
"Flipped classrooms" have been tested in engineering education through the on-line delivery of lectures using speech-synchronized PC-screen-capture technology (SS-capture) to increase engineering students' enthusiasm towards studying. The SS-capture system records Screenshots as a series of still images synchronously with input from a microphone. The resultant recording is akin to a slide...
I often hear faculty speak of students not taking responsibility. Students who do not read the assignments, miss or turn in incomplete homework, or do not actively participating in lab assignments and still expect a good grade! Simply put, more and more students are not taking responsibility for their own learning. But I don't believe that the reason is because students don't want to do so. My question...
In engineering education, self-development ability is very important. It is said that to cultivate the ability, group learning is very effective. The group learning is to form groups with several students and to assign projects to the groups. However, simply dividing students into groups and giving assignment are not enough to obtain good educational effect. Besides giving assignments to students...
Statics is the foundation course upon which much of the Civil and Mechanical Engineering curriculum is based. A solid understanding in this course can help to propel students through their engineering studies. In this paper, we investigate the performance of students who took part in a “flipped” mastery based engineering Statics course. Compared to the tradition classroom, where students can pass...
The recent nationwide audit of graduate programmes offered at public universities by the Malaysian Qualification Agency (MQA) has, in a way, opened up a can of wriggly worms! Albeit the admittedly onerous process of gathering and compiling the evidence in preparation for the audit, a substantial number of issues, either previously overlooked or unforeseen, has been ascertained. One of these in UTHM...
State formations buildout is not an ongoing process. One of the most important theoretical constructions was created by Gumilyov, and that is the Passionarity Ethnogeny Theory. What is the correlation of the engineering activities behavior and the socio-political formations buildout? What factors are responsible for the motivation of getting an engineering education? It is possible that the development...
The design of learner-centered guided in-service program for technical teacher education has been launched at Estonian Centre for Engineering Pedagogy at Tallinn University of Technology. The aim of the designed program has been facilitating the initial in-service teaching experience, involving mentoring, peer support and cognitive apprenticeship. The emphasis has been on teaching for knowledge application,...
In this article actualized the problem of the continuing pedagogical staff development in engineering University. The experience of realisation of complex multiple-level training system in Tomsk Polytechnic University is described.
The last decade there is discussion about methods and means of improving quality of engineering education and about ways to implement them in a high school practice. The authors focus on the question of forming competences in the field of quality management on the example of educational direction “Materials Science and Technology of Materials”. As shown the producing departments often include in the...
The paper focuses on the structure and content of the English language teaching for Master's Degree and Ph.D. students at a technological university, which is based on developing skills required for special engineering and academic purposes. The author shows the main principles, methods, challenging problems of the English language teaching using the courses developed at the Department of Foreign...
Technification of educational process is a stable development trend for institutions of higher educational. Exemplified by the course “General chemical engineering”, implementation of modular and context educational technology is shown. The course is included into the chemical process-engineering curriculum. Modular and context technologies ensure development of engineering thinking of future professional.
The course Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering was recast for an massively open online course (MOOC) environment and taught beginning in January 2013 using the Coursera platform. Enrollment grew throughout the course's twelve week duration, ending up at over 34,000 registrants. Of these about 4,000 were watching videos at the course's end and 500 were working the problem sets. Recasting the course...
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