Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

M. Palaninatha Raja ¹, A. M. Abirami ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Mechatronics, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, IN
2 Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, IN

Abstract

Ethics is an important attribute for any professions like engineering, medicine, legal and so on. Despite its importance, ethics has come down among the engineers in the recent past and the day to day events in the nation witnesses the engineering as collapsible or substandard bridges, development of illegal arms, unworthy clothing for uniformed people, etc,. Engineering Ethics is introduced into curriculum and the students are assessed and evaluated theoretically as per the legal directions. This loses the focus and the purpose of ethics. Engineering ethics is an important outcome specified in the Graduate Attributes of Accreditation at national and international level. Specifically, the code of conduct or the behavior of student could be measured based on the identified and well proven ethical principles. Questionnaire has been prepared against eleven basic principles of ethics. Students' thinking on each of these principles is measured through 1-5 likert scale. Face validity is adopted in this survey. It is an indirect assessment method which enables to achieve the objective of assessing the ethical behavior of engineering students. The results show that the actual thinking on ethical practices and their emotions have been captured and reported among engineering students.

Keywords

Engineering Ethics, Measurement of Ethics, Behavior, Attitude.

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A. M. Abirami ¹, M. Palaninatha Raja ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Information Technology, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, IN
2 Department of Mechatronics, Thiagarajar College of Engineering, Madurai, IN

Abstract

In recent years, there has been a downtrend in the pass percentage of UG Engineering Mathematics papers among students. Students find it difficult to score pass marks in the subject in the recent batches. Factors like lack of understanding in basic concepts, lack of quality of teaching, lack of quality in question papers, strict evaluation, and so on may be related to poor performance of students. Hence, it becomes necessary to examine the nature of final examination question papers, especially for the maths courses. It is essential to assess the type of questions asked in the examinations using the statistical techniques and measures. In this paper, the descriptive study has been made to evaluate the quality of question papers of Mathematics with the result data.

Keywords

Engineering Mathematics, Item Analysis, Difficulty Index, Discrimination Index, Student Performance, Question Paper Quality.

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