INVESTIGATION OF FACTORS AFFECTING THE LEARNING OF FINAL YEAR ADVANCED MATERIALS AND MANUFACTURING ENGINEERING STUDENTS

International Symposium for Engineering Education, ISEE’07 Introduction Recommendations1 for engineering academic best practice (i) Recognise difficulty in learning subject matter, (ii) Increase complexity progressively through the module and make connections, (iii) Contextualise the information, (iv) Provide multiple representations to reinforce concepts, (v) Make personal connections, and (vi) Encourage interaction