scholarly journals "REAL" ENGINEERING FOR A MULTI-DISCIPLINARY 1ST YEAR PROJECT/DESIGN COURSE APSC100

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barrie Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Broad Spectrum ◽  
Chemical Processes ◽  
Modern World ◽  
First Year ◽  
Project Design ◽  
Basic Sciences ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Career Experience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Engineering Career

Queen’s University has a common first year for engineering. A few years ago a project/design course was introduced, APSC100, which has been quite successful. It was predicated on the fact that students who are attracted to engineering are really excited about the possibility of “doing engineering” early in their student experience. The design of Chemical processes is something that few if any first year students have any appreciation of. We are in the process of developing a project for APSC100 which will introduce the subject as well as have the students work with a commercial FlowSheet simulator. We believe that simulators “warts and all (1)” can be an excellent learning tool, and exposure to these programs is essential as they have become so much a part of today’s engineering career experience. Commercial Flowsheet simulators continue to be a challenge for people with many years familiarity with these systems. There is however a potential for a great deal of learning about the “design process” by the use of these tools, provided these tools are presented in such a way as to be challenging but not intimidating. The paper will describe the approach to developing the APSC100 module, the challenges faced and the anticipated solutions. One particular problem will be developing something that will interest a broad spectrum of students. It has been noted that “Chemistry” often seems to be a subject that is avoided by many. This module will hopefully demonstrate the fact that “Chemistry” is one of the basic sciences and how it is the basis for much of the product of the modern world. Since this is a “work-in-progress” we anticipate and welcome suggestions as to how to present a successful module to our students.

FUNCTIONING OF MEDICAL TERMS IN CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE FIRST-YEAR FRENCH-SPEAKING STUDENTS

2021 ◽  
pp. 39-43
Author(s):  
TATIANA V. LUKOYANOVA ◽  
◽  
LYUBOV M. KASIMTSEVA ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Common Knowledge ◽  
Modern World ◽  
First Year ◽  
Medical Terminology ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Personal Meanings ◽  
Medical Terms ◽  
Students First ◽  
French Speaking ◽  
Ordinary Consciousness

He problem of interaction between language and society is more and more relevant in the modern world. Changes of the world have influenced the discourse in various spheres of communication. Moreover the progress of medicine has led to changes in the system of medical terms, and, consequently, to difficulties in understanding of terms in the ordinary consciousness. A person always wants to understand other people and to be understood by them. So it is the main goal of communication. The article deals with the issue of the functioning of medical terms in the minds of first-year French-speaking students. First-year stu- dents have the ordinary consciousness. Medical terms, which are studied by them (first-year students), function in the ordinary consciousness in incorrect form. It's because they are based on associations, feelings which the person has during the process of cognition, and, therefore, they must be interpreted. During the process of learning, there is a need to clarify the personal meanings that medical students have in regarding to special terms. In this article the author gives the results of the research concerning the French-speaking students' knowledge of medical terminology. The author gives examples of the perception and rethinking of medical terms based on common knowledge and examines the formation of scientific knowledge to develop the language of medicine in the consciousness of students and its competent use in the future.

scholarly journals Evaluating Students’ Achievement Test in Reading for Interpretation

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Aisyah Aisyah
Keyword(s):  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Foreign Language ◽  
Achievement Test ◽  
First Year ◽  
English Department ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Subject

Reading is one of the important subjects in learning foreign language. Based on the curriculum 2014 in English Department, reading has some series. In order to get satisfying result of students in reading comprehension, the lecturer should know about the students’ achievement in comprehending the text. By knowing students’ achievement in reading for interpretation, the lecturer will know what they will do for the next and what should the lecturer give more attention to. This research is aimed to know the students’ achievement in comprehending the text. The subject of this research is the first year students of English department.This research is expected to give contribution for some aspects. For the students, it is expected to give information and feedback to the students about their competence in reading. For the teacher, this research is expected to give information for the lecturer about the students’ error in comprehending the text.

scholarly journals The Influence of Teaching Vocabulary by Using Picture

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Hanik Nuzulimah
Keyword(s):  
Control Group ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Post Test ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Control ◽  
Data Analysis Result ◽  
Experimental Group ◽  
Better Than

This paper attempts to explore whether there is significant difference of achievement in vocabulary between students taught by using pictures and those are not. The subject of this study is the first year students of SLTP Muhammadiyah Simo Susukan, Semarang where the sample contains 50 students that is divided into experimental group (with treatment) and control group (without treatment). The data is gathered from participants’ score obtained from pre test and post test. Using t test as technique of data analysis, result shows that students taught by using pictures perform better than those are not. It means that there is significant difference between the two groups. Keywords: Vocabulary Teaching; Picture

Geometry is more than proof

1981 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hoffer
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The University

Each year we ask many of our first-year students at the University of Oregon to list the mathematical subjects or topics that they liked best and topics they liked least in their precollege classes. Although several subjects were “favorites,” the subject that was almost universalJy disliked was geome- try in high school.

scholarly journals Methodology of first-year students’ foreign language written discourse competency development

2021 ◽  
pp. e021023
Author(s):  
Iryna Hoshtanar ◽  
Olga Kostrubina ◽  
Aelita Lebedieva ◽  
Oksana Izmailov
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
First Year ◽  
State University ◽  
Competency Development ◽  
Written Discourse ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Experimental Teaching ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Development Of Students

The article focuses on the issues of methodology of first-year students’ foreign language written discourse competency development. The aim of this paper is to present the results of experimental work on the development of first-year students’ foreign language written discourse competency and to specify the achievements in its implementation into the educational process at the Faculty of Foreign Philology of the Kherson State University. The subject of our research project is the methodology of the development of students’ written discourse competency as the basis for their written communication in a foreign language. The achievement of this goal was carried out in the course of solving a number of tasks. Thus, the notion of written discourse competency in a foreign language is considered and its structure and components are clarified. The methodology of university students’ foreign language written discourse competency development is presented in the form of a model which includes 5 components: target, concept, content, procedure and outcome. The results obtained in the course of the experimental teaching are given.

scholarly journals Correlation between students’ workload and attendance as related towards final grades: A case of study on Statistics for first-year Engineering students.

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos De la Calle-Arroyo ◽  
Licesio Rodríguez-Aragón
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Students ◽  
High Ratio ◽  
First Year ◽  
Monitoring Strategy ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Student Workload ◽  
Engineering Degree ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Final Grades ◽  
The Relationship

In this work, a monitoring experience of student workload and attendance is presented. During four academic years, from 2015 until 2019, first-year students of an Engineering degree have been asked, three times a week, to estimate their autonomous workload devoted to the Statistics subject. The monitoring strategy has been anonymous, open and voluntary and has shown a high ratio of participation: 407 students out of 433. To generate the final dataset this information has been combined with attending records to classroom-based lectures and final grades achieved. Results indicate that declared student’s workload hardly reaches the 90 hours of autonomous work established in the ECTS ratio of our university. Nonparametric comparisons show strong statistical evidences of the relationship between final grades in the subject and declared workload and attendance. We find that attendance is crucial in order to achieve a homogeneous workload along the semester and a success in the subject’s grading.

Context Approach As a Way of Early Discipline Profilization of HigherSchool

2018 ◽  
pp. 15-20
Author(s):  
Лариса Коннова ◽  
Larisa Konnova ◽  
Алекcандр Рылов ◽  
Alexander Rylov ◽  
И. Степанян ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Process ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Academic Learning ◽  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Technological Context ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
The Government ◽  
New Generation

Development of coupled with professional standards educational programs of the new generation is one of the main requirements of modern educational standards. The Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation is guided by the strategy of early profi ling for developing such programs. The article summarizes the experience of the authors in the implementation of the ideas of early profi ling in the teaching of mathematics for the first year students of Economics and Management. The possibilities of using the contextual approach, which was developed and tested by A. Verbitsky are considered to strengthen the professional orientation of the learning process. Contextual learning technologies are aimed at transforming the academic learning process into educational activities that lead to the acquisition of professional competencies. The article presents the content of the discipline “Computer workshop” in terms of the subject-technological context and social context.

Self-advocacy for first-year students in interior architecture design studios

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 465-479
Author(s):  
Hozan Latif Rauf ◽  
Kagan Gunce ◽  
Munevver Ozgur Ozersay
Keyword(s):  
Current Literature ◽  
First Year ◽  
Self Advocacy ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Interior Architecture ◽  
Real Performance ◽  
Real Value ◽  
The Subject

Purpose The study aims to identify the issues that restrict students to show their real performance in the design due to lacking of self-advocacy skills and suggesting a new concept to overcome these difficulties. Design/methodology/approach The current literature was surveyed to form a comprehensive understanding of the issue. A case study has been taken for three years and two groups of students were taken. Results achieved and discussed. Findings The result of the study showed that those students who undergo an environment equipped with knowledge about self-advocacy can perform better and the success level is relatively higher amongst these students. Originality/value This study contributes to the current literature an original knowledge that has not been previously written about (empowering self-advocacy amongst students of interior architecture). The profession of interior architecture is a relatively new profession and faces challenges in fixing its feet on the ground that is why the subject can add a real value to it to alleviate the challenge.

scholarly journals SELF-IMAGE OF THE FIRST-YEAR STUDENTS OF TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-188
Author(s):  
A. Avdeeva ◽  
Yu. Safonova
Keyword(s):  
First Year ◽  
First Year Students ◽  
Projective Drawing ◽  
Self Image ◽  
Interview Methods ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Complex ◽  
Drawing Technique ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Diagnostic Research

This article describes the current issues of studying self-image of students of elite technical university. The first-year students have been involved in the study. The cognitive and emotional components of self-image were selected as the subject of the study. Diagnostic research complex included interview methods, questioning, observation, analysis of documents and the author’s projective drawing technique «I am a student». According to the results of the empirical research, 1) such five types of images, as elitism, cognition, integration, difficulties, forcedness have been highlighted; 2) the interpretation of self-image of first-year students by the type of drawing has been carried out.

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