Instructional Changes Adopted for an Engineering Course: Cluster Analysis on Academic Failure

Instructional Changes Adopted for an Engineering Course: Cluster Analysis on Academic Failure

As first year students come from diverse backgrounds, basic skills should be accessible to everyone as soon as possible. Transferring such skills to these students is challenging, especially in highly technical courses. Ensuring that essential knowledge is acquired quickly promotes the student's self-esteem and may positively influence failure rates. Metaphors can help do this. Metaphors are us...

An Instructional Module for Engineering Ethics

1 Harold P.E. Stern, University of Alabama, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PO Box 870286, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 [email protected] 2 Russell L. Pimmel, University of Alabama, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, PO Box 870286, Tuscaloosa, AL 35406 [email protected] Abstract  This paper describes a short (3 class-hour) module developed to teach engineeri...

Predictive Modeling and Analysis of Student Academic Performance in an Engineering Dynamics Course

Analysis & Designing an Engineering Course Using QFD

Quality function deployment (QFD) is applied to university education system in this paper. It discusses in detail the various aspects and tools associated with QFD. Now a day’s employment competition is fiercer because of global economic crisis. So how to design education program for improving undergraduate competitiveness is focused. QFD theory is applied to education program design for satisf...

An Instructional Component for Dynamic Course Generation and Delivery

E-Learning offers the advantage of interactivity: an E-Learning system can adapt the learning materials to suit the learner’s personality and his goals, and it can react to the students interaction with the learning materials. Since the advent of the Web, lots of research investigated the new possibilities to support learning offered by the means of hypertext and the Internet. However, even tho...