Enhancement of learning through field study

Abstract

Learning is more concerned in engineering education as students need to do deep learning to understand the engineering principles for practice. Engineering is a practicing profession. Therefore, providing learning environment is required for the subjects of engineering disciplines to enable students to learn in depth. By knowing this phenomenon, field study was conducted as a group study for the civil engineering subject of building construction allowing students to learn and gain knowledge by observing construction activities in construction projects in addition to the lectures in usual classroom. At the end of the study, it is found that field study is useful for learning and students acquire knowledge and understand the application of theory at real situation. In addition, students develop skills for working as a team by organizing their works, sharing knowledge, discussing with relevant technical personnel at work site and achieving the targets within the given time frame. It is realized that teacher's role is vital to make the study successful in the ways of organizing field study, conducting discussion classes to assist students, monitoring the progress and giving the feedback of the students' performance during the course of field study producing excellent results while satisfying the objectives of both teacher and students.

Mathematics Training in Engineering Degrees: An Intervention from Teaching Staff to Students

“…It has been shown that applications let students learn mathematical concepts through practical examples increase students' motivation to study mathematics, as it was confirmed in previous studies like [29]. Moreover, students discover multiple real applications of linear algebra in engineering and other areas, what achieve to motivate them to the study of this subject, as it was developed in previous studies [14,33,34]. From the answers to the questions set to the students in the interviews made after the sessions "Applications of Linear Algebra in Engineering", it can be interpreted that most of the examples have impressed students because they did not know that linear algebra could have applications in so many different disciplines.…”

“…Regarding the students' intervention, the main issue has been the relevance of problemsolving in the teaching of mathematics, as it is known that mathematical problem-posing provide better student's critical thinking skills effect than conventional learning [30,36]. Moreover, applications used in basic sciences subjects encourage student engagement and motivation in STEM degrees [14,[33][34][35]. Considering the results shown in Figure 10, it can be seen that 90% of students agreed that applications of mathematical concepts managed to increase their motivation to study linear algebra.…”

“…Rarely do math teacher training programs include a focus on mathematical modeling or the use of models in future teachers' math courses [31,32]. The use of problem-posing in engineering degrees is a profitable tool to increase student involvement and it is known that in engineering education practical and real applications used in basic sciences encourage student engagement and motivation [14], as has been developed in previous studies [33][34][35]. With this methodology, students are given a problem related to a technological field, which will drive the learning process and allow students to discover what they need to learn to solve the problem.…”

Assessing groundwater status and human perception in drought-prone areas: a case of Bankura-I and Bankura-II blocks, West Bengal (India)

“…Field studies are an important part of research because they help to make the connection between the theoretical knowledge with actual behaviours of water use in the crisis and allowing researchers to better comprehend the real-world circumstances (Kandamby 2018 ; Kundu 2019 ). Due to the current COVID-19 epidemic and lockdown, a predesigned and organised questionnaire was implemented through an internet platform to acquire the information regarding the availability, facilities, and condition of groundwater in the Bankura I and Bankura II blocks.…”

A review of performance-geared contracting

“…This is a systematic literature review from a multi-disciplinary style to provide research precision and reliability, where PC is the key unit of scrutiny (Kandamby, 2018). A systematic literature review is a style of literature review that embraces systematic techniques to gather secondary data, objectively evaluate research work and integrate studies.…”