Initiating pilot research on enhanced physics 1 for electrical and electronic engineering students

Abstract

Worldwide, Electrical and Electronic Engineering (EEE) students experience difficulties when studying enhanced physics courses. This situation has also been encountered in a prestigious college of engineering in the north of Israel over the last 25 years. The EEE students' grades in physics courses are dramatically lower than in other courses, even when compared to very complicated courses For example, the average grade on the final exam in enhanced physics 1 of the last semester is 34 (out of 100). Therefore, the authors of the current paper continue to search for efficient methods to improve the student achievements and reduce the number of failures. We believe the current research, in which physicists and EEE lecturers work together to find efficient methods to cope with a worldwide difficulty (improving the students' achievements in physics) deserve to report at an international conference.