Title
An approach for engineering education at an early stage
Abstract
In this paper, the effectiveness of our approach for engineering education at an early stage is presented. It is designed for 15 or 16-year-old students who have just begun to take lectures for a specific specialized field of engineering in our college of technology. Here, how to encourage their learning motivation for various fields of engineering becomes important. Therefore, our program was designed by focusing on skills for communication, writing reports and making presentation through an engineering education practice as a project based learning by 4 or 5 students a group. The decision was made through discussion by the group unit. In order to check presence of the difference between generations, the investigation with a program of the same contents has been carried out for three years. By analyzing the answer to the questionnaire and impression in free form answering from 160 students in total every year for inspection of effectiveness, we conclude that our approach is effective not only for the enhancement of student's learning motivation in the engineering education program but their recognition for importance of the skill acquirement was confirmed.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/FIE.2014.7044460
FIE
Keywords
Field
DocType
engineering education,project based learning,student learning motivation,communication skills,enhancement of learning motivation,presentation skills,projrct based learning,self evaluation,knowledge engineering,writing
Engineering education,Knowledge management,Knowledge engineering,Project-based learning,Engineering,Free form
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
0190-5848
1
0.37
References 
Authors
0
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sugimoto, K.110.37