2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education最新文献

{"title":"Engineering students' learning practices in Curtin Sarawak","authors":"Tang Fu Ee","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940769","url":null,"abstract":"In order to do well in their Engineering studies, students are required to achieve the associated lower-level learning objectives, which include problem-solving by performing calculations. From the author's observation of a group of Civil and Construction Engineering (C&C) students at Curtin Sarawak, students do not seem to practice performing calculation-based problem-solving. Therefore, this study aims to understand the situation by identifying the C&C students' learning practices for design or calculation - based problem solving in Curtin Sarawak. This is achieved through the use of a specially designed questionnaire and also through focus group interviews with groups of students. The collected information is reduced into a number of content units from the total responses. Major themes are identified and addressed in the focus group interviews.","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130421217","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Understanding prospective learners' computer literacy using concept map: A case study","authors":"Reginamary Matthews, Hew Soon Hin, Koo Ah Choo","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940804","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940804","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, concept map has been used as the evaluation tool to explore students' cognitive understanding in computer learning. Computer literacy regarded as important prior knowledge and skills novice programming students must acquire in order to learn to program. First semester foundation students take a 10-credit core IT module (IT and Design), to attain basic knowledge of how computer works, its uses, application and skills. The same group of students learns C programming in the final semester of the foundation year. The aim of this study is to investigate the level of computer literacy of prospective novice programming students and their perception of learning methods used in the lab. Fifty Engineering Foundation (80% male and 20% female) students involved in this study. Overall, 84% of the students have more than 5 years experience in using computer. About 74% of the students have learned to use computer at home. The learning methods used in the lab were rated as acceptable. Students' concept maps showed that their level of computer literacy as adequate. The outcome of this study resulted in focusing on cognitive tools to support learning in the lab.","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117192454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Empowering the Indian engineering faculty fraternity through online collaboration: Mission10X portal - a case study","authors":"Manesa K Kakulavarapu, Sujatha Jagannath","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940755","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940755","url":null,"abstract":"There has been a dramatic growth in Engineering Education in India over the last decade. However, the progress in delivering employable engineering talent is still limited. In order to address this, a quantum innovation project, ‘Mission10X’ was initiated by Wipro Technologies, INDIA in September 2007. The main component of the program is a set of layered workshops to empower faculty members in designing innovative teaching methodologies to create active learning environments in their classrooms. Thus there is a rapidly growing community of Mission10X empowered faculty across India. In this context, the Mission10X portal was established to promote collaboration among such faculty members. This paper discusses some key areas that the Mission10X portal supports in creating new and transforming existing practices among the faculty of Indian engineering institutes for innovation in teaching-learning process. In addition, challenges encountered as well as future trends are also presented.","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114930651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessment of specific absorption rate (SAR) and temperature increases in the human head of portable telephones","authors":"M. Faruque, N. Misran, M. Islam","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940788","url":null,"abstract":"The bioheat equation is solved for an anatomically based model of the human head with a resolution of 2.5× 2.5 ×2.5 mm to study the thermal implications of exposure to electromagnetic (EM) fields typical of cellular telephones at 900 MHz. Attention has first been posed on a particular phone model, and a comparison between the absorbed power distribution and steady-state temperature increases has been carried out. The antenna output power was set to be consistent with the portable telephones of 600 mW, maximum SAR values, averaged over 1 gm, from 2.1 to 3.6 W/kg depending on the considered phone. The maximum temperature increases are obtained in the ear and vary from 0.22 °C to 0.39 °C, while the maximum temperature increases in the brain lie from 0.07 °C to 0.17 °C. These steady-state temperature increases are obtained after about 48 min of exposure, with a time constant of approximately 6 min. Application of the ANSI/IEEE safety guidelines restricting the 1 gm averaged spatial peak SAR to 1.6 W/kg results in the maximum temperature rise in the brain from 0.07 °C to 0.15 °C at 900 MHz. Finally, considerations about the exposure limits in the considered frequency are made.","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127775635","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Enhancing active learning through groupwork activities in engineering tutorials","authors":"F. Sulaiman, S. H. Herman","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940773","url":null,"abstract":"Engineering curricula worldwide have emphasized on the usage of groupwork as one method of improving the interpersonal and teamwork skills among the graduates. These activities, in which students teach and learn from each other, provide ways for students to explore new paths and consolidate understanding. One method of enhancing active learning during tutorial classes is through collaborative or groupwork activities assingned to students of Semiconductor Devices Course at Faculty of Electrical Engineering. During tutorials students were divided into groups, Each group consisted of four students. Each group was assigned different problem-solving activities on the topics that had been taught in lectures. The studens were given half an hour to discuss among themselseves to solve the tutorial problems which were given accodingto Bloom's Taxanomy consisting of understanding, knowledge, application and analysis. Then representative of each group would present on the board on how to go about solving their work activity by defining the problem, drawing diagrams and solving the mathematical problems involved. As the students presented their work, the lecturer would guide them along, if they got stuck with it until they finally be able to solve the tutorial problem and learned a lot from each other and from the lecturer on the subject matter that had been taught in classes. This whole scenario of activities were implemented for every tutorial lesson from the beginning till the end of the semester for class EE2105B of semester July to December 2010, until each sudent had the chance to participate presenting. At the end of the semester survey questions were given to find out the students' perceptions on this collaborative active learning in engineering tutorials regarding cognitive, communication skills and their acvhievement. It was found that over 90 % of the students agreed that groupwork activities had enhanced their cognitive and social skilss. They agreed on the benefits of groupwork tutorial activities that could encourage active learning and the opportunities of improving communication skills.","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131776466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A tool to monitor the quality of engineers in Malaysia","authors":"N. Buniyamin, N. Rahmat, Z. Mohamad","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940759","url":null,"abstract":"It is assumed that there is a correlation between quality of Malaysian engineers and the pass/failure rates of Malaysian engineers that undertook the Professional Interview (PI) conducted by the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM). This paper describes the development of a database system to enable the monitoring of the quality of Malaysian engineers throughout the years. The system was built for the Institution of Engineers Malaysia (IEM) to enable IEM to assess and track failure trend of interviewees of the Professional Interview (PI). The scope of the project presented herewith includes collection of data from 1980 until 2009. Data collected includes the candidates' profile such as gender, local or overseas graduate, reasons of failure etc. The system was created to enable IEM to observe, for example, the difference in gender performance during the PI and to track which part of the PI that most candidates fails. Included in this paper are the preliminary results from analysis of the data. In addition, discussions and reasons are put forward to explain the graphical output obtained from the system","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130606953","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessments of final year diploma electrical engineering project 2","authors":"S. S. Rais, N. Enzai, S. Kar, Mohd Aziz Aris, Ermeey Abd Kadir, Rosheila Darus","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940779","url":null,"abstract":"The assessment of the Final Year Project 2 (FYP2) is very subjective if no proper guidelines are given especially if the marks are evaluated by more than a person. A fair assessment of FYP2 is therefore crucial to be considered and this paper presented a precise of assessments from supervisor and panel for implementation of a new code EEE368 for Diploma Electrical Engineering Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM). The major shortcoming of the former code, KEU380 is that the marks for the final project or prototype were not fairly allocated. Only 10% is allocated for supervisor's evaluation and the students' efforts in accomplishing the final product were not measured. Even though the project is assigned in groups, teamwork was not assessed. Allocation of marks for EEE368 is based on the confidential syllabus from Faculty of Electrical Engineering (FKE) UiTM which are 40% from panel and 60% from supervisor. Hence, the FYP2 committees distributed the marks for a new syllabus as following criteria; for panel evaluations: Presentation Skills and Project Demonstration are 15% and 25% respectively, and for supervisor evaluations: 30% for Writing Skills and 10% for each criteria of Progress Work (Logbooks and meeting with supervisor), Teamwork and Project Demonstration. The benchmark for marks is categorized to poor, moderate, good and excellent and the details are discussed in this paper.","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"208 1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121132954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Development and potential analysis of Heuristic Evaluation for Courseware","authors":"H. Mohamed, Yau'mee Hayati Hj Mohamed Yusof, Norlina Mohd Sabri","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940777","url":null,"abstract":"Heuristics Evaluation is commonly used in the evaluation process of websites and system and it has been expended from general interface evaluation to more specific evaluation such as computer games, virtual reality and shared workspace groupware. Developed heuristics evaluations of related multimedia based application were thoroughly analyzed based on specific criteria being used in the heuristics. As a conclusion, Heuristics Evaluation for Courseware (HECW) was proposed to be developed because of the important elements of courseware that need to be addressed in order to develop a usable and acceptable courseware. The development process of HECW involved five major steps; initial study, proposed heuristics, experts review, evaluation process and final heuristics. The discussions of this paper only focus on the fourth step which is evaluation process on HECW. At the end of this paper, a potential analysis for HECW using quantitative method is proposed.","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131134465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Teaching microprocessor course: Challenges and initiatives","authors":"H. Husain, Salina Abdul Samad, A. Hussain","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940794","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying the correct approach to teaching microprocessors concepts to Malaysian students is important so as to let them see how the concepts can be applied in practice. This course basically teaches the students on how to design microprocessor-based systems. The students have to understand in detail about the architecture of the microprocessor and learn how to write comprehensive assembly language programs. Teaching and learning the theory of programming is a challenging task since it involves the abstract notions and logical thinking. In addition, they have to have the detailed knowledge on the hardware aspect of the processor. Unfortunately, most of these students adopt a surface approach and tend to accept information passively. They also tend to concentrate only on what will be asked in the examinations and prefer to memorize facts rather than reflecting on the purpose and analyzing the information. They need to adopt a deep approach to learning and interact with the content critically in order to integrate both the hardware and software aspects in their design. This paper discusses the integrated, practical, and student-centered approach for teaching this important subject in the Department of Electrical, Electronics and System Engineering, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Although the results shown are favorable, continuous effort is needed to ensure students' comprehension on the concept is well established and sustainable.","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116226486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A preliminary study on engineering students learning style at UNITEN","authors":"M. Sidhu, Ridha Omar, Mohamad Shahrul Shahidan","doi":"10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940774","url":null,"abstract":"In this research a study was conducted on first year mechanical engineering students at University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN). The focus of the study was to gain the students preferred learning style (using personality questionnaire) and to design new computer aided learning (CAL) packages that employs new visualization techniques. This paper first describes some theories of learning styles followed by preliminary results of students preferred learning styles.","PeriodicalId":183006,"journal":{"name":"2010 2nd International Congress on Engineering Education","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126920412","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}