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This paper details the changes undertaken to the introductory Bachelor of Engineering (BE) course Foundations of Engineering (ENGR101) at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand (VUW) to improve first year student engineering experience. A requirement of the BE is that a student obtains a B average over their core papers in Part I to progress with the degree. The paper also reports on student...
E-learning is a contemporary teaching tool that has become popular and widely used in engineering education in recent years. This article presents the outcomes of a study on considering students' different learning styles in teaching information and communication technology using e-learning. Students were divided into two study groups. The reference group studied according to a provided learning model...
The interactive technical electronic book, TechEBook, currently under development at the University of Central Florida, provides a useful tool for engineers and scientists through unique features compared to the most used traditional electrical circuit textbooks available in the market. TechEBook has comprised the two worlds of classical circuit books and an interactive operating platform that can...
This paper presents interactive communicational elements that can be implemented on an already existing e-learning platform in order to optimize the educational process regarding young students. Thus, several tools have been developed to connect the educational practice to the information technology: information distribution, communication between students, interaction between teacher and students...
The major aim of this research was to develop new instructional materials and strategies to support engineering students, who are not electrical engineering majors, to learn electric circuit concepts. The study focused on activity Phase #3 of the Work in Progress paper presented at the 41st Frontiers in Education conference. The implementation of this phase included: (1) implementing enhanced guided-notes...
This study examines the effectiveness of inquiry-based activities for addressing student misconceptions related to four concept areas in the thermal sciences that have been identified as both important and difficult for students to master: (1) temperature vs. energy, (2) factors that affect the rate vs. the amount of energy transferred, (3) temperature vs. perceptions of hot and cold and (4) the effect...
Engineering instructors seek to gauge the effectiveness of their instruction. One gauge has been to use standardized tests, such as concept inventories and to quantify learning as the change in score over the semester. Here we question whether that approach is always the best practice for gauging the effect of instruction, and we propose an alternative of administering different tests at the start...
The application of problem-based learning (PBL) to undergraduate engineering education has emerged as an area of research interest over the past few decades, although it does not appear to be the dominant pedagogy for most engineering programs. A related form of active learning is project-enhanced learning (PEL), specifically designed to enhance but not replace traditional teaching methods in engineering...
Developing and using models is an important skill employed by practicing engineers that is difficult to cultivate in students. One way to help students develop modeling capability is through feedback. Feedback has been shown to be effective in helping students close the gap between actual and desired performance. This case study investigates the effect of feedback on student teams' use of models in...
During the last thirty or more years a number of articles about engineering education have suggested that one of the reasons why the goals of engineering have not been achieved is the lack of a proper philosophical base to provide the guidelines needed. At the same time a number of those involved in engineering course design have found it necessary to use the term philosophy when talking about the...
An increasing focus in K-12 educational outreach is on the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). A challenge in educating students about STEM topics is the ability to communicate the key concepts on a level that engages the students. The student-directed learning approach allows the students to create educational content and the teacher to oversee the development. The...
Engineering education in the Arab Gulf States (the Region) faces significant challenges as it seeks to meet the demands on the engineering profession in the twenty first century. This paper focuses on classroom-based pedagogies of engagement, and cooperative learning strategies in particular. The paper is a follow up to previous work by the author, on viable strategies to improve the classroom environment...
This paper presents a briefing about the introduction of engineering course of the Center of Science and Technology of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, recent tracking, regarding the period from 1997 to 2011, demonstrating the positive background and the obstacles faced during the course's progression, relating all different experiences, from Hands-on to Problem Based Learning...
Technical teachers need to possess skills in at least two distinct areas: engineering discipline and the art of teaching, balancing these two areas, knowing in-action how to do it in reallife situations and for real professional purposes. Understanding student individualities and their different learning styles is one of the midpoints of teacher training. The newly designed curriculum for technical...
Possibilities of using module educational technologies in training the future chemical-process engineers as exemplified in the discipline “Theoretical framework of corrosion processes” are discussed in the paper.
This roundtable proposal deals with the challenges lecturers face when including new course material into an existing module as a result of new developments in the technology or knowledge covered by the module. While the new technologies are gaining ever more grounds, the “old” technology or knowledge still remains important for the students to master, as much of the existing products and research...
The use of laboratories in Higher Engineering Education is an adequate opportunity to implement forms of experiential learning like research-based learning in material sciences. Introducing remote laboratories gives the opportunity to the student to do self-directed research and by that having own and unique learning experiences. Recently finished research projects e.g. like the PeTEX project implemented...
This paper describes an educational achievement in embedded system field from the academic year 2010 to 2011 in a national college of technology called “KOSEN.” We the authors have been continuing specialized education in the field of the embedded system in order to let students be work-ready engineers in various industrial fields. However, it is recently getting harder and harder for students to...
Traditional engineering curricula and the way these are implemented fail to promote meaningful learning and to motivate students to be responsible for their learning. This has resulted in pass-outs with minimal employability skills which have emerged as the biggest problem for stakeholders. Within past few years, several cognitive theories have emerged that place considerable emphasis on the importance...
An experimental research method using a single group with a pre-test and post-test was conducted to introduce Active Learning to a class of 33 Computer Engineering students. The researcher developed instructional materials consisted of a pre-fabricated Printed Circuit Board (PCB), and Manual that were designed to demonstrate the Basic Logic Gates functions: AND, OR, NOT, NAND, NOR, XOR, and XNOR....
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