The purpose of this study was to understand the views and perceptions of engineering undergraduate students on engineering education. The method of content analysis was used to analyze the language used by engineering undergraduate students, and to extract the underlying common factors or perceived characteristics of “Excellence in Engineering Education.” These common factors were then used to ...

AIM To identify behaviours and attitudes that exhibit poor professionalism at the proto-professional stage of undergraduate health professions education, and investigate the extent and nature of agreement by faculty on appropriate responses by undergraduate students in the UK. METHODS A preliminary inventory of 69 items of behaviour and attitude was derived from literature review and 1-month ...

Constrained resources in Central and Eastern Europe limit the capacity of local and national health ministries to study breastfeeding practices or implement evidence-based breastfeeding support programs. This paper describes an innovative model for studying an important maternal and child health (MCH) problem by training undergraduate students to strengthen local capacity for research. An inter...

Human-computer interaction is a very recent discipline at the Universidad de Costa Rica. In this paper we present the experiences of the first academic year the first courses about humancomputer interaction, an undergraduate course and a Masters course, were designed and taught. The HCI course introduction strategy consisted of two steps: 1) to initiate a dedicated undergraduate course during t...

this study aims to examine the strategies utilized by eleven postgraduate students in an efl university context in their attempts to acquire the textual practices of their discipline. first- and second-year ma students, one ph.d. student as well as individuals who had completed their ma programs in tefl took part in interviews in order to elicit the strategies they used when they endeavored to ...

For example, thus far, I had the fortune to work intimately with nine (9) undergraduate students on research questions in the areas of computational algebra and algebraic geometry. I am directing two master’s students in their research for their theses at Sam Houston State University. All of these undergraduate students have enrolled in graduate programs around the country. Three have finished ...

This paper discusses the benefits of using largescale projects, involving many groups of students with different backgrounds, in the education of undergraduate microelectronics engineering students. The benefits of involving students in large, industry-like projects are first briefly reviewed. The organisation of undergraduate programmes is presented, and it is described how students can be inv...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to describe the didactic and clinical undergraduate implant dentistry program of the Albert-Ludwigs University, Freiburg, Germany, with emphasis on the clinical implant experience. MATERIALS AND METHODS A detailed description of the implant curriculum at Albert-Ludwigs University is given with documented exemplary cases and additional flow charts. RESULTS A...

Need for emphasizing teaching Psychiatry to undergraduate Medical students highlighted. Specific recommendations put forward by different bodies and groups reviewed. A questionnaire on the pattern of teaching Psychiatry was circulated among fifty undergraduate Medical students. Analysis of results revealed students in general are not satisfied with the present pattern. Several lacunae in the te...

Research has suggested that scientific misco.nduct may be partially socialized during the undergraduate years (Keith-Spiegel, Lee, Spiegel and Zinn-Monroe, manuscript in preparation). For example, many undergraduate students believe that they will get better grades on their experimental projects if they can produce statistically "significant" results. Students also allow sympathetic situational...