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{"title":"Ethical Decision-Making Ability and Cognitive Reasoning among Final Year Engineering Students in a Higher Education Institution in Malaysia: A Qualitative Study","authors":"Mathana Amaris Fiona Sivaraman","doi":"10.11113/ajee2019.3n1.28","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2019.3n1.28","url":null,"abstract":"Ethical decision-making is an important element in engineering profession. The objective of this study is to examine final year engineering students’ ethical decision-making ability and cognitive reasoning skills. The research questions aim to investigate the considerations and general steps that students go through in a decision-making process. This study gathered qualitative data through written decisions and interviews. Twelve engineering students in a Malaysian private engineering school were asked to read two ethical vignettes and write down their decisions. This was followed by semi-structured interview questions, in alignment with the steps in an ethical decision-making model, to gauge the students’ reasoning behind their decisions. The interview transcripts were analyzed and common themes that influence the ethical decision- making of students were identified. The analysis focused on ethical sensitivity and ethical judgement of students. Students demonstrated a decent level of ethical sensitivity emphasizing professional responsibility but their ethical judgment varied according to case study. In general, students were able to identify underlying issue and affected parties, but did not give much thought to potential course of action. This study draws reflection on engineering students’ flow of thinking and cognitive reasoning processes when given a situation to deal with. The findings of this study stress the importance of engineering schools integrating relevant case studies or true accounts of engineering practices to develop ethical decision-making ability and cognitive reasoning among future engineers. This would prepare the engineering students to face the ethical challenges in their profession.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127565628","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":"Publishing Scholarly Practice in Engineering Education: Importance and Systematic Writing Tips","authors":"K. Mohd-Yusof","doi":"10.11113/ajee2020.4n2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2020.4n2.9","url":null,"abstract":"Scholarly practice articles in engineering education can be published in various places such as conference proceedings and numerous reputable journals. These articles contain descriptions of scholarly innovations in engineering education, such as in teaching and learning, curriculum development and implementation, as well assessment. Publishing this type of articles brings many benefits for the authors, institutions of higher learning and the readers, especially towards enculturation of quality and excellence in engineering education. In this paper, a systematic five-step process of writing, and structure of a scholarly practice article are explained to guide educators in publishing these papers.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"72 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127486047","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":"Sample Senior Design Projects of Industrial Engineering Program at Kuwait University","authors":"Ali Allahverdi","doi":"10.11113/ajee2020.4n1.14","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2020.4n1.14","url":null,"abstract":"A senior design course provides engineering students the opportunity to identify, formulate, and solve complex real-world engineering problems. This outcome is one of the seven student outcomes adopted by The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). Therefore, the senior design course is a part of the curriculum of most of the international engineering programs. Hence, it is also a required course in the curriculum of the Industrial and Management Systems Engineering (IMSE) program of Kuwait University (KU). In the senior design course of IMSE program at KU, students select a company and conduct their project at the company. In this paper, three of these companies are briefly described along with identified problems, proposed solutions, and obtained results. Student evaluation by the company’s representatives is also discussed. It has been shown that the senior design students improved the operations of the selected companies significantly. It has been also observed that the students are enthusiastic by applying the methodologies and tools of Industrial Engineering that they learned in their earlier courses to solve real life problems.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127928171","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":"Promoting Global Competency in Engineering Education: Designing the “Engineering Across Borders” Casebook","authors":"Laureen Elgert","doi":"10.11113/ajee2019.3n1.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2019.3n1.27","url":null,"abstract":"While global competency in engineering is a multi-dimensional skill, programs often focus on language ability, international experience, and working with international professional communities. Increasingly, engineering educators recognize a ‘third dimension’ of global competency: an understanding of how engineering projects influence and are influenced by, social, political, economic, and environmental contexts. This paper proposes the concept of a casebook that effectively builds this understanding by simulating reflective, hands on experience with project implementation in developing countries. The casebook concept features in-depth, real-world social science case studies, supplemented with informational, explanatory, and analytical materials, to improve student understanding of the different ways in which engineering practice interacts with diverse contexts. Four case studies were selected and pilot tested with undergraduate engineering students, who were asked to write article reviews in response to prompts regarding the comprehensibility and educational value of the case studies. The pilot study assessed: how case studies foment a deeper understanding of how often-assumed ‘universal principles’ of engineering interact with contextual factors; and, how case studies might be supplemented with materials that improve this understanding. Student responses indicated that the case studies contributed to their understanding and insights into the social, economic and environmental embeddedness of engineering projects. Responses also provided valuable insights into how case studies could be supplemented to improve their educational value for engineering students. The casebook concept is a potentially valuable tool for improving ‘third dimension’ of global competency, and can be particularly helpful in settings where students have limited international opportunities, and little exposure to social science approaches to engineering.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124465482","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":"Relevance of Strategically Planned Engineering Education for Sustainable Development","authors":"Nay ZarAung, Aye Myint","doi":"10.11113/ajee2020.4n1.16","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2020.4n1.16","url":null,"abstract":"Every nation is paying attention to and strategically improving SDG-4 (Quality Education) itself and using it as a tool for fulfilling other related SDGs. Today, engineering education plays a vital role in implementing a significant portion of SDGs and thus strategic plan for engineering education also becomes important. Although many of existing works have focused on how to implement SDGs through education, there are very few works which study on the relevance of educational strategic plan for SDGs. \u0000The objectives of this paper are to review how higher education, which includes engineering education, is strategically planned in a National Education Strategic Plan and to analyse which strategies support other SDGs in addition to SDG-4. As a case study, the review is conducted for Myanmar NESP (2016-2021). By means of questionnaires, a total of 240 institute/university heads of departments/deans, teachers/lecturers and students from fifteen different universities are surveyed to explore relevance of NESP for other SDGs in addition to SDG-4. \u0000First, according to intuitive analysis, it finds that Myanmar NESP strategies for higher education support SDG-6, SDG-7, SDG-8, SDG-9, SDG-13, SDG-14, SDG-15 and SDG-17 in addition to SDG-4. It is agreed and verified by survey results. The survey results show that in addition to SDG-4, NESP can support SDG-9 in second place, SDG-11 in third place, SDG-6 in fourth place, SDG-7 and SDG-17 in fifth place. More than 95% agree to strategically include the concept of sustainable development in university curriculum. A total of six potential recommendations are made to be considered in developing a NESP in the future. These are (1) to have policy/strategy for inclusion of SD concept as an elementary course in universities, (2) to increase policy/strategy for promoting STI through research, (3) to have policy/strategy for promoting “Education for SD” in teacher education, (4) to increase policy/strategy to promote SD through campus operation, (5) to have policy/strategy for promoting technological entrepreneur (techno-preneur) (6) to have policy/strategy for initiating graduate programs in “Sustainable Development” in universities.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128532978","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":"Model for Developing and Assessing Critical Thinking Skills in an Undergraduate Civil Engineering Program","authors":"Alina Zapalska, Hudson Jackson, Sharon Zelmanowitz","doi":"10.11113/ajee2020.4n1.20","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2020.4n1.20","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a model for developing and assessing critical thinking in an undergraduate program. The 21st Century Bloom’s Taxonomy provides a framework for creating classroom materials that fosters the development and advancement of critical thinking skills. Furthermore, the paper presents an instrument for assessing students’ critical thinking progression and development. The proposed strategy is based on a specifically developed process where students are guided to progress from a lower to a higher level of cognitive thinking level during four years of undergraduate study. Placement of course activities in a specially designed sequence, as well as the use of specifically designed critical thinking instructions and assessment process to achieve desired learning outcomes are vital to deliver an effective critical thinking program. The proposed model for advancement and assessment of critical thinking presented in this paper can be used by other programs that plan to implement effective strategy for critical thinking. An example of the Civil Engineering undergraduate program at the United States Coast Guard Academy is presented to illustrate this effective strategy.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131698210","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":"Trial through Communication Games for Teamwork Skill Enhancement at First-year Students in Science and Technology Course","authors":"Hiroyuki Matsumoto, Kenji Amagai, Yasushi Yuminaka","doi":"10.11113/ajee2020.4n2.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2020.4n2.5","url":null,"abstract":"The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) of Japan had been promoted a “program of student employability” to cultivate a sense of sociality and independence in university education. Reflecting these trends, educational programs to improve the teamwork skills are in demand. At our university, first-year students are trained in group work skills and cooperative education. For this purpose, Career Planning and Career Design coursesare offered during first and second semesters of first-year education. Enhancement of teamwork skills at an early stage of education is deemed extremely important. In this paper, we report on a training program to enhance teamwork skills for first-year students of science and technology. Communication games were used to evaluate the importance of communication and teamwork. The effect of this trial was analyzed through a student questionnaire. As a result, weconfirmed that students experienced the importance of teamwork for the solving of problems through the trial of teamwork ability using communication games.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129377248","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":"Investigation on the Factors Affecting Teaching Effectiveness of Undergraduate Engineering Programmes","authors":"Shuib Sahudin, Ismail, M.Y, Maideen N.C., Nur Afifah, S.","doi":"10.11113/ajee2019.3n1.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2019.3n1.25","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching effectiveness has been a key concern for universities since it pertains to the achievements of skills required for the competitive job market. This study aims to identify the factors that might influence teaching effectiveness. For the purpose of the study, data were collected from the seventh semester students of manufacturing engineering programme and product design engineering programme of one university in the northern Peninsular of Malaysia. A structured questionnaire was used and the responses were gathered with a five point Likert Scale. 130 set of questionnaires were collected and were then analysed with partial least square structural equation modelling (PLS SEM) method. The PLS findings revealed that lecturers’ ability, course characteristics and teaching methods & materials are strong predictors of teaching effectiveness. The outcome of this PLS analysis may pave the way for universities to develop new guidelines so as to improve teaching effectiveness. Consequently, this effective teaching will equip the university graduates with the necessary knowledge and skills required by employers.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126845831","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":"Arduino for Chemical Engineering Students via Game-based Learning","authors":"M. N. H. Zainal Alam","doi":"10.11113/ajee2020.4n1.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2020.4n1.15","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents author experience in teaching Arduino for chemical engineering students using the game-based learning teaching methodology. Learning outcomes associated to the work included attainment of necessary technical skills related to Arduino and development of essential attributes especially team-working, communication and problem-solving through the proposed game-based learning method. The mechanic of the game proposed is based on the snake-and-ladder board game where students need to complete series of tasks using a customized Arduino learning kits to complete the game. Rubrics were formed to evaluate student’s competency and achievements on the tasks given. Compared to the teachercentered method, an increased in student performance by at least 40-50% was achieved. The learning structure of the game were formulated to achieve different level of cognitive skills namely comprehension, apply and analysis and therefore, allowed them to meet the learning outcomes. Majority of the students agreed that the game-based learning method conducted has successfully created an enjoyable learning environment and excite their interest on Arduino where nearly 70% of the respondents believed that the game had made them acquired the lifelong learning and team-working skills.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124435392","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":"Course Design on Emerging Technologies","authors":"Davut Çulha","doi":"10.11113/ajee2019.3n1.23","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.11113/ajee2019.3n1.23","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the design of Emerging Technologies course under the Software Engineering Department at Atilim University. At Atilim University, a visionary course was needed especially for the senior undergraduate students of Information Technology (IT) related departments. At Atilim University, there are 3 IT related departments which are Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, and Information Systems Engineering. This course should have covered all the emerging technologies so that students can decide properly the fields to work after graduation. Moreover, students should have been encouraged for entrepreneurship to develop their own businesses. As a result, a course covering all emerging technologies was designed. First of all, a comprehensive definition is formed for emerging technologies, and they are classified. The important concepts included in the course are active learning, improving the vision, proposing new technologies, and forecasting the future technologies. The course also includes a project which is designed to be a simulation of an important emerging technology. For the simulation project, software development is requested from the students. This provides students to reconcile emerging technologies and software development, which is the most important technology for IT related students. This paper presents instructor experiences, student feedback analysis, lessons learned and recommendations for other instructors.","PeriodicalId":411547,"journal":{"name":"Asean Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121678902","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}