Title :
A preliminary study on engineering students learning style at UNITEN
Author :
Sidhu, Manjit Singh ; Omar, Ridha ; Shahidan, Mohamad Shahrul
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Graphics & Multimedia, Univ. Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN), Kajang, Malaysia
Abstract :
In this research a study was conducted on first year mechanical engineering students at University Tenaga Nasional (UNITEN). The focus of the study was to gain the students preferred learning style (using personality questionnaire) and to design new computer aided learning (CAL) packages that employs new visualization techniques. This paper first describes some theories of learning styles followed by preliminary results of students preferred learning styles.
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; engineering education; mechanical engineering computing; CAL packages; UNITEN; University Tenaga Nasional; computer aided learning; engineering students learning style; mechanical engineering students; Reliability engineering; Silicon; Visualization; Engineering; learning styles; multimedia; visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Engineering Education (ICEED), 2010 2nd International Congress on
Conference_Location :
Kuala Lumpur
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-7308-3
DOI :
10.1109/ICEED.2010.5940774