Comparing conventional and resource based education in chemical engineering: student perceptions of a teaching innovation

1990 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Paul Baxter
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Teaching Innovation

scholarly journals STUDENT PERCEPTIONS AND USE OF AN INVENTORY TO FACILITATE LEARNING OF INDIVIDUAL TEAM-EFFECTIVENESS

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Kristine Sheridan ◽  
Doug Reeve ◽  
Greg Evans
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Team Effectiveness ◽  
Energy Systems ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Course Content ◽  
Graduate Attributes ◽  
Communication Competencies

Team-based projects have become a common method of modeling real-world experience and meeting required graduate attributes in engineering. In these projects, much of a student’s grade is attributed to work produced by an entire team, creating a need for instruction on how to work effectively as team members in addition to course-content instruction. A web-based tool is in development to create a virtual environment in which students can learn about and improve their individual team-effectiveness competencies through self- and peer-assessments. Framed as a guided reflection, these assessments are facilitated using an inventory which identifies 18 competencies along three aspects of team-effectiveness: Organisational, Relational and Communication competencies [1]. The inventory assesses observable behaviours that translate to specific levels of competency so as to provide a foundation for normalized self- and peer-assessments, as well as provide examples of how to improve. A study to assess student perceptions and use of the inventory was conducted in the Fall 2012 term in two upper year courses. The first course was a third-year course on energy systems that is required of all students in the Energy Option of Engineering Science and the second a fourth-year engineering leadership course which any engineering student can select as an elective. The objective of this study was to determine if students in a required engineering course perceived and used the inventory differently than those who self-selected into an engineering leadership course.

scholarly journals An Initial Exploration of Engineering Student Perceptions of COVID’s Impact on Connectedness, Learning, and STEM Identity

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig Stewart ◽  
Maryam Darbeheshti ◽  
Stephanie Ivey ◽  
David Russomanno ◽  
Miriam Howland Cummings ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Student Perceptions ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Initial Exploration

Exploring Citations in Chemical Engineering Literature Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmin Hanafi Zaid ◽  
Sarimah Shamsudin ◽  
Hadina Habil
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Academic Writing ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Student Writers ◽  
Academic Texts ◽  
Citation Practices ◽  
Research Students ◽  
Made In

Citation is considered as an essential part in any academic writing whereby it is one way for writers to support any claims or arguments made in their study with literature from previous research. Literature review is known as a chapter which provides background for research described in a thesis. However, relatively not many studies are done on literature review chapter of thesis which may be due to the extensive nature of the text. Writing academic texts such as a thesis requires an author to acknowledge other researchers’ work through proper use of citations. Learning the appropriate way to cite is important in any kinds of academic writing especially among research students who are writing their theses. Therefore, the main aim of this study is to investigate the citation practices in doctoral theses of Chemical Engineering. The purpose of this study is two folds; i) to identify the types of citations used in the corpus (using Swale's 1990 categorization) and ii) to examine the functions related to the citations used (using Thompson's 2001 framework). Three literature review chapters were analysed first to identify the types of citations used in the mini corpus and the functions related to the citations. The results of the study show that engineering student writers mostly used Non-integral citations as compared to Integral. The study concludes with a discussion on the skills of citing the literature which should be given more attention to raise the awareness level among students.

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