first-year engineering course
The Inverted Classroom in a First-Year Engineering Course
... reasons. First, most students do not have previous post-secondary ...the course with fewer expectations and may be less likely to regard the inverted classroom as different or ...students’ ...
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Online Quizzes for Enhancing Student Learning in a First Year Engineering Course
... UniSAnet has a quiz wizard that facilitates the creation of multiple choice, true/false and fill in the blanks questionnaire among other types. As this was the first time I was developing online quizzes, I needed ...
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Host company collaboration and workplace learning for a successful curriculum concept
... Every year JTH holds the “host company day” where all companies participating in the host company program are invited to JTH to meet students and ...with first, second and third year students. The ...
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Professionalism In The First Year Of A Software Engineering Curriculum
... Abstract: Professionalism is an important part of any subject of study where graduates subsequently move into a professional career following their degree course. Most professional bodies therefore require ...
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Transitions to first year engineering - diversity as an asset
... The portfolios are used as the major assessment item and students are now asked to assess and evaluate their prior knowledge and experience with respect to the course aims and objectives. Students have been asked ...
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Motivational and Cognitive Learning Strategies Used by First Year Engineering Undergraduate Students at Universidad Católica in Chile
... could apply what they have learnt in this course to other courses. As for the reasons for performing the tasks of this course, this appeared to be slightly more determined by intrin- sic goals (M = 5.1, SD ...
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The implementation of blended learning in an English communication course for first-year university engineering students - a case study
... among first-year students at tertiary institutions remains a contributing factor to how those students react to and experience any technological innovation in learning and ...of first-year ...
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Engaging first year students: a collaborative approach implemented in a first year nursing course
... to their subject matter in a purposeful way, exercises aimed at giving students greater readiness and confidence to contribute to seminar discussions and to learn from each other. CMS1007 applies these understandings by ...
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A Broadly Implementable Research Course in Phage Discovery and Genomics for First Year Undergraduate Students
... research course for first-year undergraduate students focused on bacteriophage discovery and ...The course is situated within a broader scientific context aimed at understanding viral ...
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Examining first year students' preparedness for studying engineering
... Descriptive statistics for cognitive skills performance by course type and study mode are shown in Table 2. Multivariate analyses indicated that there were no significant differences across course types (p ...
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Get set, go! Preparing for success in first year engineering
... All partner universities were already conducting some form of diagnostic pre-testing of their first year intake. For the most part, the testing was primarily designed to alert first year ...
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How To Teach And Learn On A Third Year Software Engineering Course
... A compulsory attendance policy can act as a teaching tool in itself. Attendance at the weekly four-hour session was compulsory for the first hour only. After that the students could study independently in a ...
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Team based learning for first year engineering students
... teaching engineering subjects is efficient in presenting a large amount of information to large numbers of ...their engineering problem solving abilities, a greater sense of community among themselves, and ...
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Fostering Passion Among First Year Engineering Students
... introductory course were identical in content, textbook, assignments, and exams but differed in two ...ways. First, one section was enrolled by a cohort of nineteen high school students including seventeen ...
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Enhancing critical thinking in first year engineering students
... We do not seek to teach the students to be programmers, rather we are teaching them the rudiments of programming in the context of MATLAB and LabVIEW. There is less need for the modern engineer to be able to program in a ...
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To Design a Designer To Design Designs
... B.A.I. engineering degree in Trinity College Dublin has recently been revised to a more project orientated ...the first year of the introduction of a new project based course, which was ...
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POPBL experience: a first attempt in first year electrical engineering students
... Course overview The POPBL approach was introduced to the first year student in the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, UTHM through Electrical Circuit Theory BEE 1113 subje[r] ...
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Developing study skills in a first year mathematics course
... in first year courses are novices to learning at university with the result that many of them have an uncertain ...a first year service mathematics course and proposes a model of ...
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Mitigating the Mathematical Knowledge gap Between High School and First Year University Chemical Engineering Mathematics Course
... studying first year mathematics at the Chemical Engineering Extended Curriculum Program ...Chemical Engineering students, with the aim of identifying the mathematical knowledge gap, and to ...
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Engineering Design and Communication: The Case for Interdisciplinary Collaboration*
... this first-year course not only allows us to develop students' communication abilities (since interviewing and observing users is so commun- ication-intensive), but it also allows the engineer- ing ...
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