scholarly journals Learning from the Self-Created Media: Designing the Engineering Students’ ESP Autonomous Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Difiani Apriyanti ◽  
Sumira Sumira
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Autonomous Learning ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Positive Contribution ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Heterogeneous Classes ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Higher Institutions

Currently, English lecturers of non-English speaking countries in higher institutions are facing heterogeneous classes. There are fortunate students during their high schools who got a chance to sharpen their English skills and others who just rely on their English school teachers. Unaffordable costs or limited facilities or access to learning are some of the factors. The learning material of ESP for Engineering for a heterogeneous class is developed. This R&D used ADDIE approach. This article focuses on the analysis of the first two phases- analysis and design. Analysis of the need of the Engineering students and English lecturers are conducted using instruments of the open questionnaire and interview list which have been validated. While in the design phase, the material is developed using an autonomous learning approach and a task-based approach. Before, continuing to the practicality test, the developed material also has been validated. This material is aimed to support the learning of " Describing a Process" which is one of the topics in ESP in the Engineering Department of Politeknik Negeri Padang. The developed material provides every meaningful task that gives a positive contribution to the students.

scholarly journals PENGEMBANGAN JOBSHEET PENGUJIAN BAHAN DAN METROLOGI UNTUK MENINGKATKAN STANDAR KOMPETENSI MAHASISWA POLITEKNIK

2015 ◽  
pp. 273-282
Author(s):  
I Komang Rusmariadi ◽  
I Ketut Rimpung
Keyword(s):  
Small Groups ◽  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Quantitative Method ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Formative Evaluation ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Material Development ◽  
Trial Test ◽  
Two Phases

Abstrak:Penelitian pengembangan bahan ajar dalam bentuk jobsheet ini dilakukan dalam dua tahap. Tahap pertama adalah tahap pengembangan draft jobsheet di tahun 2014. Tahap kedua merupakan tahap implementasi di tahun 2015 dengan tujuan untuk mengetahui: (1) hasil penilaian ahli, dosen dan mahasiswa; (2) kendala-kendala selama uji coba; dan (3) kelayakan draf jobsheet sebagai bahan ajar praktik. Penelitian ini menggunakan model pengembangan Dick & Carey pada tahap review dan uji coba penelitian melibatkan 2 orang ahli, 6 orang dosen pengampu mata kuliah, dan 26 orang mahasiswa jurusan teknik mesin. Data diperoleh dengan menggunakan angket tertutup dan terbuka. Data yang terkumpul berupa tanggapan dan saran perbaikan dianalisis secara deskriptif kualitatif sedangkan data yang merupakan hasil penilaian terhadap jobsheet terpadu dianalisis secara deskriptif kuantitatif. Hasil pengujian menyatakan: (1) isi sangat layak (uji ahli); desain/media sangat layak (uji ahli, perorangan, kelomok kecil; uji lapangan layak (mahasiswa) dan sangat layak (dosen); (2) berdasarkan hasil uji isi dan desain hingga uji lapangan, ada beberapa komponen yang masih perlu direvisi. Dapat disimpulkan bahwa draf bahan ajar dinyatakan layak sebagai bahan ajar praktik. Penelitian ini hanya sampai pada tahap evaluasi formatif pada Jobsheet Praktik Pengujian Bahan dan Metrologi. Diharapkan dilakukan penelitian lebih lanjut untuk mengetahui efektifitasnya dalam upaya meningkatakan kompetensi mahasiswa.Kata Kunci: Pengembangan; jobsheet terpadu; praktik pengujian bahan dan metrologi; kompetensi; politeknikAbstract:This research on jobsheet learning material development was carried out in two phases. First phase was jobsheet drafting in 2014. The second phase was the implementation in 2015 with the objectives of knowing: (1) evaluation from the experts, lecturers, and students; (2) constraints during the trial test; and 3) feasibility of the jobsheet draft as practical learning material. This research applied the development model of Dick & Carey in review phase and involved 2 experts, 6 respective lecturers, as well as 26 mechanical engineering students in the trial test. The data were collected through close and open questionnaires. Response and recommendation data were analyzed with descriptive qualitative method, whereas the data of evaluation on the integrated jobsheet were analyzed with descriptive quantitative method. The testing resulted in: (1) content was highly feasible (by expert); design/media was very feasible (experts, individuals, small groups); field trial test was feasible (students) and very feasible (lecturers); (2) based on the results of the whole test, there were some components that still needed to be improved. It can be concluded that the learning material draft was feasible to become practical learning materials. This research was carrioud out only up to the phase of formative evaluation on the Material and Metrology Test Practical Jobsheet. Further research is expected to know the effectiveness of it in enhancing the students’ competence.Keywords: Development; integrated jobsheet; material and metrology test practice; competence; polytechnic

scholarly journals Developing Android-Based Interactive Mobile Learning Software To Improve Students’ Analysis And Synthesis Abilities On Basic Electronics

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (20) ◽  
pp. 91
Author(s):  
Toto Ruhimat ◽  
Tata Risdian Rosdiana
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Learning ◽  
Electronic Component ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Electronic Learning ◽  
Operational Testing ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Analysis And Synthesis ◽  
Tenth Grade ◽  
Post Test ◽  
Learning Software

<p>This research aims to improve students' analysis and synthesis abilities on electronic component learning material using the Research and Development (R&amp;D) method. Data were obtained from tenth-grade students of the Industrial Electronic Engineering Department in Bandung Regency and analyzed using the pre-test and Post-test with normalized gain. The results showed that during the stages of limited and product operational testing, the developed product tends to improve students' analysis and synthesis abilities in basic electronic learning material with electronic component sub-materials. Therefore, Android-Based Interactive Mobile Learning has succeeded in creating new and effective ways for students to learn.</p>

scholarly journals Analisis Kebutuhan: Pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris Berbasis Padlet di Teknik Mesin Universitas Islam Riau

GERAM ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Fauzul Etfita ◽  
Sri Wahyuni
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
English Language ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Needs Analysis ◽  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Teaching Materials ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Academic Year

Teaching materials are a set of tools or facilities that contain materials, methods and evaluations used by teachers or lecturers in learning. So far, the teaching materials released by several developers have rarely been in accordance with the needs of Mechanical Engineering students, where some of the teaching materials available still use general English. In this study, in order to compile an appropriate teaching material, researchers have conducted a needs analysis. Needs analysis is a fundamental aspect for English language lecturers for specific purposes (ESP) in identifying information or the main needs of students and investigating areas of student shortages. In line with this statement, this research is a case study design that aims to determine the needs of mechanical engineering students in learning English through Padlet at the Faculty of Engineering in the 2019-2020 academic year. The data in this study were collected from researcher observations, questionnaires and semi-structured interviews with 40 students and two English language lecturers in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. The results revealed that speaking and writing are the main focus of English skills in the Mechanical Engineering department and listening along with reading are the next English skills needed than others.

scholarly journals Hubungan Minat Belajar dengan Hasil Belajar dalam Mata Pelajaran SMAW di SMK Negeri 1 Sumatera Barat

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-60
Author(s):  
Damrizal Damrizal ◽  
Jasman Jasman
Keyword(s):  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Arc Welding ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Student Learning Outcomes ◽  
Solid Metal ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Correlational Research ◽  
Metal Arc Welding ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
West Sumatra

The problem in this study is that students are less interested in learning and seen from the daily results obtained from SMAW subject teachers that the learning outcomes of SMAW subjects in the Welding Engineering department are still low. The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is a relationship between interest in learning and learning outcomes in SMAW subjects. This type of research is descriptive correlational research. The sample stated in this study were all students of class XI of the Welding Engineering Department who participated in the 48 Solid Metal Arc Welding subjects. The results of the study revealed a contribution of a positive relationship between interest in learning with student learning outcomes in the field of study SMAW Class XI Welding Engineering students of SMK Negeri 1 West Sumatra 2018/2019 learning year. This gives the meaning of the higher interest in learning, the higher learning outcomes of SMAW learning outcomes.

scholarly journals PROTOTYPE DESIGN OF MICRO HYDRO USING TURBINE ARCHIMEDES SCREW FOR SIMULATION OF HIDROPOWER PRACTICAL OF ELECTRO ENGINEERING STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 6
Author(s):  
Antonius Ibi Weking ◽  
Yanu Prapto Sudarmojo
Keyword(s):  
Energy Source ◽  
Power Plants ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Water Pressure ◽  
Water Discharge ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Influence Of Water ◽  
Turbine Speed

Development of new and renewable energy source always developed by world researchers which one of those is energy source from water, because it’s friendly for environment and low cost. Water is one of energy source which it’s have big potential in all Indonesian territory. The main problem from microhydropower plants is a water discharge which it’s flow is not continued every year because influenced by weather season. Micro Hydro is a microhydro power plants (MHP)in a small scale. A micro hydro can be operated in a certain of time if it has a enough water supply. To knowing a right of micro hydro’s  characteristic is not easy thing to learn it. It is because a characteristic each of micro hydro’s installation location is considered specific location.               One type of micro hydro is using Archimedes Screw Turbine. Udayana University of Electrical Engineering Department in this time not have a facility for hydropower field to use this model, so a college student not yet to receive a knowledge of this. Through this research, a writer want to expand a college student’s knowledge in hydropower field with create a prototype of micro hydro with Archimedes Screw Turbine to hydropower practical in laboratory. In this research the effect of screw’s height angle conversion and effect of water pressure conversion has to be researched. In this study will discuss the influence of water pressure and slope of the altitude angle on the rotation produced by the Archimedes screw turbine so that it can be seen the voltage, current, power generated by the generator, torque and efficiency . The result of from handmade equipment for this research in angle 40­0 with biggest generator round (rpm) is 3768 (rpm) and highest power is 10.92057 watt, torque adalah 0.60 Nm dan efisiensi sebesar 14 %. The torque which resulted from water pressure 24 psi is 0,73 Nm and efficience 18,01 %. The voltage, current, and output power which resulted in generator is 85,8 Volt, 0,1963 Ampere and 16,85 Watt. For generator speed round in the pressure 24 Psi is 4582 rpm, while turbine speed round which resulted from the pressure 24 Psi is 383 rpm before coupled with generator and 222 rpm after coupled with generator.

The Model Eliciting Activity (MEA) Construct: Moving Engineering Education Research Into the Classroom

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry J. Shuman ◽  
Mary Besterfield-Sacre ◽  
Renee Clark ◽  
Tuba Pinar Yildirim
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Student Performance ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Conceptual System ◽  
Learning Material ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Real World Problem ◽  
Upper Level ◽  
Problem Solvers

A growing set of “professional skills” including problem solving, teamwork, and communications are becoming increasingly important in differentiating U.S. engineering graduates from their international counterparts. A consensus of engineering educators and professionals now believes that mastery of these professional skills is needed for our graduates to excel in a highly competitive global environment. A decade ago ABET realized this and included these skills among the eleven outcomes needed to best prepare professionals for the 21st century engineering world. This has left engineering educators with a challenge: how can students learn to master these skills? We address this challenge by focusing on models and modeling as an integrating approach for learning particular professional skills, including problem solving, within the undergraduate curriculum. To do this, we are extending a proven methodology — model-eliciting activities (MEAs) — creating in essence model integrating activities (MIAs). MEAs originated in the mathematics education community as a research tool. In an MEA teams of students address an open-ended, real-world problem. A typical MEA elicits a mathematical or conceptual system as part of its procedural requirements. To resolve an MEA, students may need to make new connections, combinations, manipulations or predictions. We are extending this construct to a format in which the student team must also integrate prior knowledge and concepts in order to solve the problem at hand. In doing this, we are also forcing students to confront and repair certain misconceptions acquired at earlier stages of their education. A distinctive MEA feature is an emphasis on testing, revising, refining and formally documenting solutions, all skills that future practitioners should master. Student performance on MEAs is typically assessed using a rubric to measure the quality of solution. In addition, a reflection tool completed by students following an MEA exercise assists them in better assessing and critiquing their progress as modelers and problem solvers. As part of the first phase a large, MEA research study funded by the National Science Foundation and involving six institutions, we are investigating the strategies students use to solve unstructured problems by better understanding the extent that our MEA/MIA construct can be used as a learning intervention. To do this, we are developing learning material suitable for upper-level engineering students, requiring them to integrate concepts they’ve learned in foundation courses while teasing out misconceptions. We provide an overview of the project and our results to date.

Undergraduate Project in Compressor Rig Design, Fabrication, and Testing for Complete Engineering Training

2015 ◽  
Vol 138 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Huu Duc Vo ◽  
Jean-Yves Trépanier
Keyword(s):  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Mechanical Design ◽  
Plastic Material ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Engineering Programs ◽  
Undergraduate Engineering ◽  
Compressor Aerodynamics ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Two Phases

An ambitious project in propulsion was introduced as part of the final-year integrator project offerings of the mechanical and aerospace engineering programs at École Polytechnique de Montréal in 2011–2012. It has been running successfully for the past three academic years. The project consists in the design, fabrication, and placement into service of a functional instrumented multistage compressor test rig, including the compressor, for research in compressor aerodynamics. A team of 15–17 senior-year undergraduate engineering students is given a set of design and performance specifications and measurement requirements, an electric motor and drive, a data acquisition system, and some measurement probes. They must complete the project in two semesters with a budget on the order of Can$15,000. The compressor is made from rapid prototyping to keep production cost and time reasonable. However, the required rotation speed of 7200 rpm stretches the limits of the plastic material and presents the same structural challenges as industrial compressors running at higher speeds. The students are split into subteams according to the required disciplines, namely, compressor aerodynamics, general aerodynamics, structures, dynamics, mechanical design and integration, instrumentation, and project management. For the initial phase, which covers the first two months, the students receive short seminars from experts in academia and industry in each discipline and use the knowledge from fundamental engineering courses to analytically model the different components to come up with a preliminary design. In the second phase, covering three to six, the students are trained at commercial simulation tools and use them for detailed analysis to refine and finalize the design. In each of the first two phases, the students present their work in design reviews with a jury made up of engineers from industry and supervising professors. During the final phase, the compressor is built and tested with data acquisition and motor control programs written by the students. Finally, the students present their results with comparison of measured performance with numerical and analytical predictions from the first two phases and hand over their compressor rig with design and test reports as well as a user manual and an assembly/maintenance manual. This complete project allows the students to put into practice virtually all the courses of their undergraduate engineering curriculum while giving them an extensive taste of the rich and intellectually challenging environment of gas turbine and turbomachinery engineering.

The use of general and specialized corpora as reference sources for academic English writing: A case study

ReCALL ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ji-Yeon Chang
Keyword(s):  
Academic Writing ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Discourse Community ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Academic English ◽  
Training Corpus ◽  
English Writing ◽  
English Speaking

AbstractCorpora have been suggested as valuable sources for teaching English for academic purposes (EAP). Since previous studies have mainly focused on corpus use in classroom settings, more research is needed to reveal how students react to using corpora on their own and what should be provided to help them become autonomous corpus users, considering that their ultimate goal is to be independent scholars and writers. In the present study, conducted in an engineering lab at a Korean university over 22 weeks, data on students’ experiences and evaluations of consulting general and specialized corpora for academic writing were collected and analyzed. The findings show that, while both corpora served the participants well as reference sources, the specialized corpus was particularly valued for its direct help in academic writing because, as non-native English-speaking graduate engineering students, the participants wanted to follow the writing conventions of their discourse community. The participants also showed disparate attitudes toward the time taken for corpus consultation due to differences in factors such as academic experience, search purposes, and writing tasks. The article concludes with several suggestions for better corpus use with EAP students regarding the compilation of a corpus, corpus training, corpus competence, and academic writing.

A Gear-Chain Based Transmission for the Machine Elements Design Laboratory

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Salim Azzouz ◽  
Guy Bernard
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Planetary Gear ◽  
Vehicle Performance ◽  
Vehicle Loading ◽  
Engineering Department ◽  
Variable Transmission ◽  
Machine Elements ◽  
A Chain ◽  
Engine Components

This project describes the collaboration of two instructors, one from the mechanical engineering department and one from the mathematics department with a group of mechanical engineering students to build and analyze a new type of transportation transmission. Current transmissions have torque limitations when working at various vehicle loading conditions. The ideal vehicle transmission is a continuously variable transmission that delivers optimum torque at any loading condition. The motivation for this research project is to design a new transmission that would increase the number of gear ratios using a chain element, and consequentially, increasing the number of available torques to achieve better overall vehicle performance. The new transmission consists of two planetary gears systems linked by a chain. It includes multiple inputs and outputs with the possibility of using one of the outputs to drive other engine components. The system is currently investigated for all possible gear ratios and usable torque configurations. The gear ratios are determined using Willis’s formula for planetary gear systems. All possible gear combinations are investigated and their gear ratios mathematically determined. A prototype was designed and built. It is being automatized, currently.

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