Omron Express at IIUM
Omron Express at IIUM
A Bus not to Miss!
Friday (10th April) at Kulliyyah of Engineering Car Park
OMRON AUTOMATION EXPRESS AT IIUM
Omron Automation Express (Omron @Xpress) will visit Kulliyyah of Engineering on Friday, 10th April, 2009. All Engineering Community including Academic Staff, Researchers, and Engineering Students are invited and most welcome for this once-in-life experience.
What is Omron Automation Express?
Omron Automation Express is a mobile demonstration unit, or modern lab carrying the state-of-the art automation solutions. Omron @Xpress will demonstrate the modern Sensing and Control Technologies. You can see a whole range of Omron products on display and can have “hands-on†experience in a testing area available in the bus.
Venue: Arrival of Bus at 09:00~09:30, Kulliyyah of Engineering Car Park,
Date: 10th April, 2009, Friday (Until 17:00)
Programme Outcomes of EAC
In a recent posting, the Programme Outcomes which have been adopted in Manufacturing Engineering Programme were provided (see Programme Learning Outcomes for Manufacturing Engineering). We have all these outcomes same as Programme Outcomes of Kulliyyah of Engineering with the slight difference of Programme Outcome 3 referring to Manufacturing Engineering Field specifically. Engineering Accreditation Council (EAC) of Malaysia has 10 different Outcomes all of which are used in our Programme Outcomes (plus our own additional three). 10 Programme Outcomes for EAC are given below. Graduates from an accredited engineering programme should have the following attributes, capabilities, and outcomes:
- Ability to acquire and apply knowledge of science and engineering fundamentals;
- Ability to communicate effectively, not only with engineers but also with the community at large;
- In-depth technical competence in a specific engineering discipline;
- Ability to undertake problem identification, formulation and solution;
- Ability to utilise a systems approach to design and evaluate operational performance;
- Understanding of the principles of sustainable design and development;
- Understanding of professional and ethical responsibilities and commitment to them;
- Ability to function effectively as an individual and in a group with the capacity to be a leader or manager as well as an effective team member;
- Understanding of the social, cultural, global and environmental responsibilities of a professional engineer, and the need for sustainable development; and
- Expectation of the need to undertake lifelong learning, and possessing/acquiring the capacity to do so.
For EAC Engineering Accreditation Council for more information.
Spoonfeeding
Spoonfeeding
First let us describe spoonfeeding. The following are the definitions of spoonfeeding in dictionary.
What is SpoonFeeding (Spoon Feeding)?
Spoonfeeding as a noun
1. Spoonfeeding is simply feeding someone from a spoon by treating him/her as a baby
2. spoonfeeding (teaching in an overly simplified way that discourages independent thought)
Spoonfeed as a Verb
1. Spoonfeed (feed with a spoon)
2. spoonfeed (teach without challenging the students) “This professor spoonfeeds his students”
What is wrong with Spoonfeeding?
Nothing is wrong in spoonfeeding if one of the situations applies to you (see below). However, in education, things are different.
Spoonfeeding in Engineering Education
Spoonfeeding is the greatest harm to an engineering student. An engineer is expected to be innovative, creative in his/her career. How could someone expect these challenging task from an engineer in the real life if he/she was spoonfed during the engineering education?
An environment where an instructor simply rattles down information to be memorized and recalled during exams will kill creativity and reward a lack of critical thinking. A more ‘Socratic’ enviroment where the student is lead to ‘discover’ principles will assuredly lead to better understanding, retention, creativity, fun, ease of use, ability to apply in unfamiliar situations, etc…
By supplying readily available resources to engineering students in the classroom and solving some easy-to-digest problems in the classroom later to ask them in a similar fashion in exams by just changing some numbers may be seeming very attractive to students since they can easily pass the exams and obtain a good grade.
This kind of teaching can provide at most a second level of learning in Bloom taxonomy what we call as comprehension and in many cases memorization level only which is the first level of learning.