scholarly journals Student Perceptions of Engineering Service Experiences as a Source of Learning Technical and Professional Skills

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Robert Carberry ◽  
Hee-Sun Lee ◽  
Christopher W Swan
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Service Experience ◽  
Traditional Course ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Service Experiences

A dramatic increase in engineering student participation during the last decade indicates heightened student and faculty interest in engineering service experiences. The first step towards understanding why students are drawn to such opportunities is to examine how students perceive engineering service experiences as an important source of learning technical and professional skills involved in the engineering disciplines. The following study investigates how students compare their service experience with their traditional coursework experience as a source of learning professional and technical skills in engineering. Students’ perception of where they learned professional and technical knowledge or skills provides an insight into the potential impact service-based interventions creates. This study compares service experiences with traditional coursework-based learning to examine the impact of service on students’ perception of learning sources. Students participating in an eclectic and large variety of engineering service experiences were surveyed. Engineering students on average identified that 45% of what they have learned about technical skills and 62% of what they have learned about professional skills was gained through their engineering service experience. Female students credited service experiences as their source of both professional and technical skills significantly higher than male students, and were consistent across academic years. Engineering students’ perceive service-based learning experiences, relative to their traditional course-based learning, to significantly impact what they know about technical and professional engineering outcomes.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 lockdown policy on the anxiety of the engineers-in-training in ABU Zaria Engineering Faculty in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-36
Author(s):  
Toyese Oyegoke ◽  
John Olotu ◽  
Ayodeji Oluwatobi Ojetunde
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Book Reading ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Life Plans ◽  
Falling Asleep ◽  
Academic Calendar ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
The Impact

Anxiety is a public phenomenon that constitutes a public source of inadequate performance globally and plays a significant role in their lives. Engineering students and academics have been through immense changes in education because of the effect of the COVID-19 crisis. It is well-known that epidemics' occurrence creates or accentuates new stressors, including panic and fears for loved ones or oneself, constraints on social activities and physical movement due to quarantine, and unforeseen and radical change of lifestyle. This study aimed to assess the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown policy on engineering students’ anxiety in Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria. The study confirmed that the students had an increase in the anxiety level, in which the female student had a higher level of anxiety than the male students. The highest contributing factors to the anxiety include "worries about academic delays/extension of the academic calendar," "worries about a delay in life plans as a result of the suspension of school," and "worries about running out of supplies." The main areas that anxiety impacted the lives of the students include "a decline in book reading /studies/academics," "finding it hard to focus," "being unable to hang out with friends," and "difficulties in falling asleep." Finally, the students managed the level of anxiety mainly by "the use of internet/social media/chatting," "prayer/self-motivation/meditation/reflection," and "watching movies/TV/music."

scholarly journals THE EFFECT OF APPLYING SOCRATIVE ON STUDENTS’ READING ABILITY

JURNAL ELINK ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 48
Author(s):  
Riryn Fatmawaty ◽  
Sofi Nurhidayatus Sholihah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Ability ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Alternative Hypothesis ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Male Students ◽  
10Th Grade ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Experimental Type ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Academic Year

This study aimed to determine the impact of the application of socrative to the reading ability of students in industrial 4.0 era, where anything was done using the internet and computers. The method used in this study was the pre-experimental type One Group Pretest-Posttest. This method used a class that was used as the object of research. This research was conducted at SMK 1 Baureno located on Jl. Raya Kepohbaru Department No. 258, Baureno, Plumbungan, Bojonegoro. The object of this research was the 10th grade computer and network engineering students at SMK 1 Baureno. The number of students was 34 consisting of 17 male students and 17 female students. This research was conducted on February 5 through March 11, academic year 2019/2020. There were three activities carried out, namely pretest, treatment and posttest. The hypothesis accepted in this study was the alternative hypothesis (Ha). Because the results of this study indicated that the t-test of 34 students was 17,07 with a significant level of t-table 0,05. This mean that there were differences in the ability of students before and after treatment was given. And from the results of questionnaires that had been done that 10th grade students of computer and network technique at SMK 1 Baureno prefered to read online (using socrative) rather than reading offline. Keywords: Reading, socrative

scholarly journals Service and Design as Mechanisms to Impassion the Study of Engineering, from K-12 to Higher Education

2010 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-46
Author(s):  
Brent C Houchens
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Graduate Education ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Team Leadership ◽  
Leadership Strategies ◽  
Mentoring Program ◽  
Traditional Course ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The Impact

Service and design provide mechanisms to introduce students to successive stages of engineering education.  These activities positively influence outreach to K-12 students, recruiting of women and underrepresented minorities to engineering, retention of undergraduate engineering students, and encouragement and funding for graduate education.  Furthermore, service and design provide continuity and motivation across engineering education.  These offer experiential learning opportunities in practical problem solving, while simultaneously promoting personal development of communication skills and team leadership.  Strategies are discussed for implementing service and design components in engineering education at all levels, from K-12 to graduate education.  For K-12 outreach, a mentoring program called DREAM is highlighted.  Opportunities for outreach and externally reviewed proposal writing and presentations are discussed in the context of undergraduate design.  These can be implemented through both traditional course work and alternative design projects.  Finally, the impact of all of the above activities on graduate education, particularly graduate funding, is discussed.

scholarly journals Student perceptions and reported use of video recorded lectures in engineering courses

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Steele ◽  
Cheryl Schramm
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Circuit Analysis ◽  
Perceived Usefulness ◽  
Survey Tool ◽  
Video Lecture ◽  
Second Year ◽  
The Impact

Between 2008 and 2010 an introductory circuit analysis course for second year engineering students had its lectures recorded (2008 was audio only, other years were by video) and the recordings were made available to registered students as a supplemental resource. Attendance to lectures was still required. In 2011 an introductory programming course was recorded in a similar way. In each of these offerings the students were anonymously surveyed at the end of the course using an online survey tool with most questions using a five point Likert category scale. The survey looked at the perceived usefulness of the recordings, the approach to watching and the impact on attendance. The responses showed strong support to having video lecture capture and the reported use of the videos was to watch selected material. There was a difference between the courses on the impact on attendance, with the circuit analysis course indicated little impact on attendance, whereas the responses from the other course indicates more missed lectures due to the availability of recordings.

Comparing Physical and Cyber-Enhanced Dissection: An Analysis From Multiple Perspectives

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katie Grantham ◽  
Deborah Moore-Russo ◽  
Kemper Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Unknown Origin ◽  
Professional Preparation ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Instructional Tools ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The Impact

Product dissection has evolved into a versatile pedagogical platform useful across the engineering curriculum. With the advent of digital, cyber, haptic, virtual, and immersive technologies, the opportunities to implement product dissection as an instructional tool increase dramatically. However, the effectiveness of cyber-enhanced dissection must be studied and the advantages and limitations of each type of platform must be understood in the context of achieving educational outcomes. In this paper, we first outline the history of dissection and carefully delineate the difference between physical, virtual, and cyber-enhanced dissection. We then study the impact of variations of cyber-enhanced (a blend of physical and virtual) dissection across two populations of sophomore engineering students at two universities using a number of exercises and data collection methods. We report on student perceptions regarding the affordances and disadvantages of physical vs. cyber-enhanced dissection. Students perceived the cyber-enhanced dissection exercises to be relevant to the students’ own professional preparation, to facilitate easier dissemination, to better align with emerging industrial practices, and to provide unique experiences not available in other courses the students had taken. Some potential drawbacks of cyber-enhanced dissection were also reported by students, including technology distracting them from the core educational objectives and overreliance on historical data of unknown origin. Although there are important tradeoffs between physical and cyber-enhanced dissection that need to be considered, using a blend of physical and virtual instructional tools may provide an effective platform to teach a wide range of engineering concepts across a curriculum.

Developing a typology of disruptive customer behaviors

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (9) ◽  
pp. 2341-2360 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dogan Gursoy ◽  
Raine (Ruiying) Cai ◽  
Gerardo Joel Anaya
Keyword(s):  
Customer Service ◽  
Disruptive Behaviors ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Service Experience ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Study Approach ◽  
Service Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Service Experiences ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This paper aims to examine the phenomenon of disruptive service behavior: an act by a customer that negatively affects the service experience of other customers and to identify typology of disruptive behaviors of customers that can negatively alter the service experiences of by-standing customers. Design/methodology/approach Anecdotes of customers’ service experiences that were negatively affected by the behavior of other customers were gathered from several customer review and discussion websites using a netnographic study approach. Data were analyzed using a qualitative data analysis approach with an iterative and inductive methodologies. Findings The analysis produced a typology featuring seven categories of disruptive behaviors of customers: “Inattentive Parents with Naughty Kids”, “Oral Abusers”, “Outlandish Requesters”, “Hysterical shouters”, “Poor Hygiene Manners”, “Service Rule Breakers” and “Ignorant Customers”. Practical implications Using the typology developed in this study, managers and operators of hospitality businesses can identify specific customer service behaviors and develop strategies and actions to minimize the impact of those behaviors on the service experience of other customers. Originality/value Even though a great deal of attention has been given to how employees can damage customers’ service experiences, much less work has been conducted on disruptive behaviors of customers as an influential factor of service quality and satisfaction. This study aims to address this gap in the literature by developing a typology of disruptive customer behaviors.

scholarly journals An Analytical Study of Smartphone Addiction among Engineering Students: A Gender Differences

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Shilpa Bisen ◽  
Dr. Yogesh Deshpande
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Sampling Method ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Smartphone Addiction ◽  
Smartphone Apps ◽  
Health Apps ◽  
User Behaviors ◽  
The Impact

With advent of new Smartphone technologies and the widespread utilization of touch screen mobile phones made humans embrace technology more and depend on it extensively and compulsively in their lives. Due to the new communication technologies and Smart phones the world is becoming a trajectory place where man is not relying on man for its needs but depending more on Smartphone apps which is replacing multivariate structure of human behavior where Smartphone Apps are transforming its functional role as a Guru, Mentor, Family physician, shopping consultant and so on. The present study is exploring the impact of Smartphone User Applications (Apps) on the behavior of the engineering students. This study examined Smartphone user behaviors and their relation to Smartphone addiction. A General Behavioral survey guided by a well structured self design questionnaire has been administered across a sample of hundred students. The questionnaire is comprised of Thirty items measuring amount, duration and pattern of usage of various Smartphone apps specifically health apps, entertainment apps, shopping apps, communication apps, and education apps.  Overall test score measuring overall addiction to the Smartphone. A Sample is assigned using random sampling and purposive sampling method. Two groups are divided in fifty male and fifty female across the age ranges from 18- 22 years from various Engineering Colleges to measure gender differences. The test findings showing significant level of difference among the Smartphone addiction across the gender in accordance with usage of various Smartphone apps. The overall trend shows male students are more prone to Smartphone addiction than female.

The Ins and Outs of Teamworking: When University Teachers, in-Service Secondary Teachers and Pre-Service Teachers Collaborate to Transform Learning

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-193
Author(s):  
Dolors Masats ◽  
Paula Guerrero
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Students ◽  
Collaborative Action Research ◽  
Team Work ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Secondary English ◽  
Research And Innovation ◽  
Learning Success ◽  
Teachers Professional Development ◽  
Agent Of Change ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Initiatives for teachers’ professional development should rely on the epistemology of practice, that is, be founded on the premise that reflective teachers construct professional knowledge and develop professional skills through practice and through planning, observing or analysing practice. Reflection about teaching action and reflection in teaching action triggers innovation, especially when teachers work together to create the necessary conditions to transform learning. This paper advocates in favour of collaborative action research and innovation as a methodology to promote change in classroom practices. To illustrate this proposal, it presents a case study in which a secondary English teacher from a school which hosts adolescents at risk opens her classrooms to a researcher and a group of pre-service teachers with the objective to reflect upon her own practices and to become an agent of change. Our corpus is made of natural audio-recorded data from the discussions emerging during focus-group sessions held to evaluate the ongoing innovation and interviews to participating secondary students and trainee teachers. The analysis of those interactions will first lead us to reflect upon the challenges of promoting change in the classrooms. Then it will allow us to understand the impact of the experience and argue in favour of a model of teacher education based on team work as a tool to acquire professional skills and guarantee students’ learning success.

scholarly journals Impact of temperature and relative humidity on the transmission of COVID-19: a modelling study in China and the United States

BMJ Open ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. e043863
Author(s):  
Jingyuan Wang ◽  
Ke Tang ◽  
Kai Feng ◽  
Xin Lin ◽  
Weifeng Lv ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Relative Humidity ◽  
Human Mobility ◽  
The United States ◽  
Reproductive Number ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Higher Temperature ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
The Impact

ObjectivesWe aim to assess the impact of temperature and relative humidity on the transmission of COVID-19 across communities after accounting for community-level factors such as demographics, socioeconomic status and human mobility status.DesignA retrospective cross-sectional regression analysis via the Fama-MacBeth procedure is adopted.SettingWe use the data for COVID-19 daily symptom-onset cases for 100 Chinese cities and COVID-19 daily confirmed cases for 1005 US counties.ParticipantsA total of 69 498 cases in China and 740 843 cases in the USA are used for calculating the effective reproductive numbers.Primary outcome measuresRegression analysis of the impact of temperature and relative humidity on the effective reproductive number (R value).ResultsStatistically significant negative correlations are found between temperature/relative humidity and the effective reproductive number (R value) in both China and the USA.ConclusionsHigher temperature and higher relative humidity potentially suppress the transmission of COVID-19. Specifically, an increase in temperature by 1°C is associated with a reduction in the R value of COVID-19 by 0.026 (95% CI (−0.0395 to −0.0125)) in China and by 0.020 (95% CI (−0.0311 to −0.0096)) in the USA; an increase in relative humidity by 1% is associated with a reduction in the R value by 0.0076 (95% CI (−0.0108 to −0.0045)) in China and by 0.0080 (95% CI (−0.0150 to −0.0010)) in the USA. Therefore, the potential impact of temperature/relative humidity on the effective reproductive number alone is not strong enough to stop the pandemic.

scholarly journals The Role of Dopamine Receptor D2 in Bridging the Intention-Behavior Gap in Sport Participation

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 2379
Author(s):  
Seiyeong Park ◽  
Junhye Kwon ◽  
Chiyoung Ahn ◽  
Hae-Sung Cho ◽  
Hyo Youl Moon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Dopamine Receptor ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Small Sample Size ◽  
Behavioral Model ◽  
Small Sample ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Dopamine Receptor D2 ◽  
The Impact

Previous studies have identified that a behavior can occur through the strongest predictor intention, but there is a gap between intention and behavior. Dopamine receptor D2 (DRD2) is known to account for a variance in sporting behaviors in human and animal subjects. However, the relationship between DRD2 and sport participation has been poorly studied, and the limited available reports are inconsistent. The present study was performed to examine the impact of DRD2 on sport participation among Korean university students based on the integrated behavioral model (IBM). Data were collected from enrolled university students in Seoul (N = 45). Participants answered survey questions first, and then they gave investigators their hair to provide DNA information (i.e., the A1 allele of DRD2). DRD2 had a significant effect on sport participation, but only in male students. Male students who carried the A1 allele of DRD2 significantly participated in 105.10 min more sporting activities than male students who did not. Moreover, the effect of intention on sport participation was significantly decreased when considering DRD2. Despite the small sample size, the results of this study could be a preliminary case for a larger study and indicate the direction of future research. Our results suggest that DRD2 may have played an important role as the “actual skill” shown in the IBM.

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