Journal of Engineering Education Transformations

N. M. Masoodhu Banu ¹, A. Merline ², T. Sujithra ³

Affiliations
1 Biomedical Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan & Dr.Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai, IN
2 A. Merline, Electronics and Communication Engineering, Sethu Institute of Technology, IN
3 S.R.M Institute of Science and Technology, IN

Abstract

This paper describes the development of POGIL based instructional design classes for complex engineering problems described in the Program Outcomes (PO) of National Board of Accreditation (NBA), India accreditation criteria. Embedded system Design course in Electronics and Communication Engineering course (ECE) is considered for experimentation. Subsequently it aims at providing students and interested fresh faculty an opportunity to design and build the project on their own. The aim of the project is to design a round robin based embedded system where the tasks are of their choice. To structure and complete their design part, both students and faculty were posed with a large number of questions. They were asked to refer literature and data sheets for their work. Once the design part was reviewed to avoid critical errors, students built their project and compared solutions to theoretical predictions. Feedback was collected and analysed to determine the effectiveness of POGIL in PO attainment. The reflections given by both faculty and students were positive, in particular students found that solving complex engineering problems are quite difficult and challenging compared to other prescribed book end exercises but POGIL helped them to be more constructive to build their knowledge.

Keywords

POGIL, Descriptors, Personification.

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T. Sujithra ¹, N. M. Masoodhu Banu ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering Karunya Institute of Technology and Sciences, Coimbatore, IN
2 Department of Biomedical Engineering Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology Chennai, IN

Abstract

Our conventional teaching style teaches how to listen, memorize, and how to apply it to the real world. However, it is a good style of teaching, participation of the student in a subject is very less. Most of the time, it is faculty centric. Furthermore, in this style of teaching, practical knowledge is very less, most of them working towards the marks. In order to improve the teaching methods and to reduce the gap between the student and faculty, many academicians did their research in active learning. It improves the quality of teaching, and gave different ambient to the students. In this dissertation, gaming pedagogy is designed for engineering college students. Millennium learners prefer active learning; most importantly, they are visual learners. The mind map is one such technique, here they need to associate something related. Though it is a group activity, it cannot be conducted as a game. Teaching with images arouses their curiosity and if it is clubbed with a game their interest goes infinite. Hence, the pedagogy called connexion was designed to attract the diverse learners. Here, the class was divided into groups. One set of students was asked to prepare the task for connexion game called authors, and the other set was simply participants. The authors weaved together the images available in the public domain for finding the concept. Doing so they came up with lots of questions with the items they were exploring and they even developed some good strategies. They also designed clue questions for the participants to answer with the help of the teacher. For this study, connexion game conducted for the subject programming for problem solving using C. For detailed analysis fifty students chosen in our class; Students assessed in a specific concept via a connexion game. From the result, it is observed that ninety percentage of the students actively participated and understood the concept easily. The feedback also collected from the students, it shows that they are enjoying gaming pedagogy. As an end result, this gaming made the authors to think critically and the participants have a good conceptual understanding in addition to a good revision exercise and entertainment for them.

Keywords

Teaching, Game, Connexion, Learners, Pedagogy.

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N.M.Masoodu Banu ¹, T. Sujithra ², Kotteswar Rao Anne ³

Affiliations
1 Professor, Department of Bio Medical Engineering, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr.Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai.Tamil Nadu., IN
2 Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal, Karnataka., IN
3 Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education,Krishnankoil, Srivilliputhur. Tamil Nadu., IN

Abstract

This paper presents an innovative pedagogical approach for average learners to implement projects by effectively fitting their knowledge in solving real-world problems. In particular, it concentrates on embedded systems and embedded signal processing as the current world is experiencing through digital era. Even though both courses are taught, only less numbers of students are opting for embedded projects due to fear of coding and lack of fitting their knowledge appropriately. The focus of this study is to make students to come out of fear by following top-down teaching learning methodology for the design and implementation of Electro Cardio Gram (ECG) data acquisition system. Accordingly, initial interest has been generated by taking the students to the hospital where doctors acquire ECG routinely for their patients and do Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) to observe the spectrum for diagnosis purpose. Every real time system uses high level language for implementation. However, noncomputer science students always found it difficult. In order to make the students to come out of fear, simple scripting language MATLAB was tried first. MATLAB coding demo was given to observe the waveforms and an exercise was made to correlate with actual workplace. After interest creation phase, the relationship has been established between the practical they did and the workplace instrument. In the final stage, their learning process was activated by applying inquiry-based (Masoodhu Banu et al. (2020)) learning. Once the quest for real time implementation was created, it was observed that the student's curiosity was increased enormously and was instituted to be effective coders in solving real time applications with more confidence.

Keywords

Top-Down Learning, Bottom-Up Learning, Ecg, Active Learning, Embedded System.

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