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Transactions: WSEAS TRANSACTIONS ON ADVANCES in ENGINEERING EDUCATION
Transactions ID Number: 32-108
Full Name: Roszilah Hamid
Position: Senior Lecturer
Age: ON
Sex: Female
Address: Department of Civil and Structural Engineering, Engineering Faculty, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor
Country: MALAYSIA
Tel: 60389216447
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E-mail address: roszilah@eng.ukm.my
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Title of the Paper: Improvement of Delivery Methods in Teaching Materials Technology
Authors as they appear in the Paper: R. Hamid, K.M. Yusof, S.A. Osman and R.A.O.K. Rahmat
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Number of paper pages: 10
Abstract: Abstract: - Since opting to Outcome Based Education method, the teaching of the subject Material Technology had resorted to problem-based learning method to achieve the outcomes attributed to this course. For the students to attain communication skill and life-long learning, problem-based learning is utilized to replace traditional lectures and laboratory works. Traditionally, lectures are given for 28 hours in a 42-hour per semester course and the rest allocated for laboratory works. In the newly endorsed method, the lecture hours are reduced to 14 hours and the rest is for presentation and seminars by the students. As for laboratory work, instead of doing individual experiment with individual report, the whole laboratory work for the semester is designed as components of a project. The results of the transition are: the students are more interested to attend class especially during presentation sessions where they provide high commitment; for a descriptive-form !
courses, such as Materials Technology, boring lectures can be made interesting by the students themselves presenting the materials with the lecturer's guide and as for the laboratory work, no more free riders and lack of understanding the relationship between individual experiment with the problem to be solved. The work load of the students is calculated using the definition of notional credit hour and the new improved delivery method for this course still maintain the three credit allocation.
Keywords: Problem-based learning, traditional method, transition, notional credit hour
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