Learning style preference and critical thinking perception among engineering students

Engineering education plays a vital role towards modernization of world. Therefore, engineering students need to be nurture with multiple skills like learning preferences and critical thinking skills. This study has been conducted to identify the learning style preferences and critical thinking perception of the engineering students from three programs electrical engineering, mechanical engineering and civil engineering at Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia (UTHM), Johor. Survey research design was applied in this study. The quantitative data was collected by two questionnaires Index of Learning Styles (ILS) that is based on Felder-Silverman Learning Style Model (FSLSM) and Critical Thinking Skills (CTS) questionnaire which consists of analysis, evaluation, induction and deduction in terms of problem solving and decision making. A total of 315 final year engineering students were participated in this study. Data was analyzed in descriptive and inferential statistics involving tests Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Pearson Correlation and linear regression. The study discovered that engineering students are preferred to be visual learners (83.80%). Visual learning style denotes FSLSM input dimension and visual learners learn best by diagrams, charts, maps and graphical presentations. This study also found that engineering students possess critical thinking perception in all dimensions. However, there is no statistical significant difference of learning style found among engineering programs as “p” value found 0.357. Whereas, there is statistical significant critical thinking difference found among engineering programs as “p” value found 0.006. Lastly, findings revealed that there is no significant relationship found between learning styles and critical thinking skills. The study findings suggested that providing preferred learning style (visual learning style) in classroom will enhance students’ academic achievement and increase their cognitive level. This study might serve as a guideline for educators to facilitate learners to enhance their learning and thinking for better outcomes in academia as well as in workplace

Modified weighted for enrollment forecasting based on fuzzy time series

The enrollment study is main point for the university planning. Many previous studies have been presented for enrollment forecasting. This paper proposed the adoption the weighted and the difference between actual data toward midpoint interval based on fuzzy time series. By using the enrollment of the University of Alabama and Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM), as data sets for training and testing, the performance of the adoption approach has been shown much improvement in terms of MSE (Mean Square Error) and average error of forecasting measurements

Multi-hop Cooperative Relaying for Energy Efficient In Vivo Communications

This paper investigates cooperative relaying to support energy efficient in vivo communications. In such a network, the in vivo source nodes transmit their sensing information to an on-body destination node either via direct communications or by employing on-body cooperative relay nodes in order to promote energy efficiency. Two relay modes are investigated, namely single-hop and multi-hop (two-hop) relaying. In this context, the paper objective is to select the optimal transmission mode (direct, single-hop, or two-hop relaying) and relay assignment (if cooperative relaying is adopted) for each source node that results in the minimum per bit average energy consumption for the in vivo network. The problem is formulated as a binary program that can be efficiently solved using commercial optimization solvers. Numerical results demonstrate the significant improvement in energy consumption and quality-of-service (QoS) support when multi-hop communication is adopted

Pembersih bilah kipas siling

Kebanyakan rumah pada kebiasaannya mempunyai kipas siling tidak kira samada rumah moden atau tradisional. Kipas siling merupakan sejenis kipas yang digantung pada bahagian atas rumah untuk mengitar udara melalui bilah-bilah kipas berputar (Norfarahanim Mohd@Ramli, 2007). Ia berfungsi untuk menyerakkan udara di sekeliling kawasan secara lebih menyeluruh namun ia tidak mengubah suhu bilik secara langsung. Lazimnya, bilah akan berputar pada arah lawan jam untuk menolak udara sejuk turun ke bawah. Apabila menghampiri lantai, angin yang terhasil akan terserak ke semua arah dan udara panas akan naik ke atas secara semulajadi untuk menggantikan udara sejuk yang telah ditolak kebawah

Penggunaan Metode Pembelajaran Tutor Sebaya Untuk Meningkatkan Kemampuan Membaca Pada Mata Pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia Siswa Kelas VI SDN 2 Carikan Kecamatan Juwiring Kabupaten Klaten Tahun Pelajaran 2012/2013

Dalam proses pembelajaran yang menyangkut materi, metode, media alat peraga dan sebagainya harus juga mengalami perubahan kearah pembaharuan (inonvasi). Dengan adanya inovasi tersebut di atas dituntut seorang guru untuk lebih kreatif dan inovatif, terutama dalam menentukan model dan metode yang tepat akan sangat menentukan keberhasilan siswa terutama pembentukan kecakapan hidup (life skill) siswa yang berpijak pada lingkungan sekitarnya. Penelitian ini berdasarkan permasalahan: (a) Bagaimanakah peningkatan kemampuan mambeca pada mata pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia dengan diterapkannya metode pembelajaran tutor sebaya pada siswa Kelas VI SDN 2 Carikan, Kecamatan Juwiring, Kabupaten Klaten, Tahun Pelajaran 2012/2013? (b) Bagaimanakah penggunaan metode pembelajaran tutor sebaya terhadap kemampuan membaca pada mata pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia siswa Kelas VISDN 2 Carikan, Kecamatan Juwiring, Kabupaten Klaten, Tahun Pelajaran 2012/2013? Sedangkan tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah ingin mengeta hui peningkatan kemampua n membaca siswa pada mata pelajaran Bahasa Indonesia setelah diterapkannya metode pembelajaran tutor sebaya. Penelitian ini menggunakan penelitian tindakan (action research) sebanyak dua siklus. Setiap siklus terdiri dari empat tahap yaitu: rancangan, kegiatan dan pengamatan, refleksi, dan refisi. Sasaran penelitian ini adalah siswa kelas VI SDN 2 Carikan. Data yang diperoleh berupa hasil tes formatif, lembar observasi kegiatan belajar mengajar. Dari hasil ana lis didapatkan bahwa prestasi belajar siswa mengalami peningkatan dari siklus I sampai siklus II yaitu, siklus I (59,1%) dan siklus II (90,9%). Simpulan dari penelitian ini adalah metode pembelajaran tutor sebaya dapat meningkatkan kemampuan membaca pada mata pelajaran bahasa Indonesia siswa kelas VI SDN 2 Carika n, kecamatan Juwiring, kabupaten Klaten, serta metode pembelajaran ini dapat digunakan sebagai salah satu alternatif pembelajaran Bahasa Indonesia

Analisis Kinerja Struktur Atas Gedung 7 Lantai dengan Variasi Dimensi dan Lokasi Shearwall Studi Kasus Konsep Kondominium Hotel

The final project consists of modifications condominium building with a wide range of alternatives. Condominium hotel is that every hotel room or unit can be owned and traded by individuals. Condominium which has been called the apartment can be operated like a tourist accommodation. A wide variety of alternative building contains about modification alternatives A condominium hotel is an existing building of condominium hotels, alternative B uses modified by adding shearwall angle on the corner of the building, alternative C using shearwall modified by adding "+" between the two buildings, alternative D using a modification by adding shearwall along the edge of the building. After modification condominium building with using a variation of the position and shape of each shearwall on its modeling. Then compare the force of the moment, shear, axial, volume, and deflection or deviation that occurs in each of the modeling. So it can be concluded that modeling is not modified or modeling existing buildings that use Frame System bearer Ordinary Moment (SRPMB) have a smaller volume compared to other modeling using Shearwall or Special Moment Frame Systems bearer(SRPMK). If viewed from the deviation or deflection, the higher floors of building has the greater deflection or deviation

A New Weighting Scheme in Weighted Markov Model for Predicting the Probability of Drought Episodes

Drought is a complex stochastic natural hazard caused by prolonged shortage of rainfall. Several environmental factors are involved in determining drought classes at the specific monitoring station. Therefore, efficient sequence processing techniques are required to explore and predict the periodic information about the various episodes of drought classes. In this study, we proposed a new weighting scheme to predict the probability of various drought classes under Weighted Markov Chain (WMC) model. We provide a standardized scheme of weights for ordinal sequences of drought classifications by normalizing squared weighted Cohen Kappa. Illustrations of the proposed scheme are given by including temporal ordinal data on drought classes determined by the standardized precipitation temperature index (SPTI). Experimental results show that the proposed weighting scheme for WMC model is sufficiently flexible to address actual changes in drought classifications by restructuring the transient behavior of a Markov chain. In summary, this paper proposes a new weighting scheme to improve the accuracy of the WMC, specifically in the field of hydrology

ANTECEDENTS OF ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT OF BANKING SECTOR EMPLOYEES IN PAKISTAN

The aim of this study was to check the association of factors like work environment, job security,pay satisfaction and participation in decision making; with organizational commitment of theemployees, working in the banking sector of Pakistan. Two hundred and fifteen (215) responses toquestionnaire-based survey were collected from managerial and non-managerial employees, andanalyzed. The analysis showed positive correlations between the dependent and independentvariables. The relation between job security and organizational commitment was the most significant,indicating that a secure job can yield higher level of commitment. Work environment also had asignificant relation with organizational commitment, showing that a healthy and friendly workenvironment may enhance an employee’s commitment towards his work and organization. Paysatisfaction and participation in decision-making had low correlations with organizationalcommitment. Age and tenure seemed to affect the commitment of employees, with highercommitment shown for higher age and tenure; whereas gender did not show significant change incommitment level of employees

Development of web based for POZI Catering reservation system using Drag and Drop (DnD) feature / Muhammad Izzul Aiman Ismail

POZI Catering that are located in Gong Badak, Kuala Terengganu. They are having a problem when client making a reservation. POZI Catering does not having any computerized system that could help them to overcome this problem. POZI Catering also does not keep customers information in the computerize system. In addition, they also having a problem in designing event layout which is they need to hired a canopy company to handle it. Then, this project is target to develop a project POZI Catering Reservation using Drag-n-Drop (DnD) Feature for client to manage their reservation while staff to manage the event information and event layout. The clients having difficulties according to the POZI Catering schedule which is available and unavailable schedules. The project was fragmented into five phases which is Introduction, Literature Review, Methodology, Result and Analysis and Conclusion and Recommendation. The methodology that has been used in the project is Waterfall Model. It can be carried out and completed sequentially with no overlap. The features were reviewed and compared with several web features which is Canvas Drawing, Scalable Vector Graphical(SVG) and Drag-and-Drop (DnD) was selected for this project. The requirements for this project was collected by interview of the stakeholder. It was analyzed using CRUD technique and it was documented in Software Requirement Specification (SRS). The system design and structures were made using Java Eclipse software and it was documented in a Software Design Document (SDD). When the system was in the development phase, the Drag-n-Drop feature has been implemented in the system and it has been tested by researcher to confirm whether the given solution in designing event layout problem. The system is to be believed that it could solved the problem but due to limited of time, the system could not give the solution but the reservation still can be made using the system. The lecturers also were given a test to the system but the lecturers were incapable to give their responses as the researcher time was restricted. There are still some yet to come work need to be finished to fully develop the system

Analisis Kinerja Kemapulabaan CV. Semoga Jaya di Samarinda

Activities in a good company that produces goods or services, one of the targets to be achieved is to obtain the maximum profit in accordance with the size or scale capabilities that exist in the company. Thereby achieving the maximum profit be one measure of the success profitability of the company.Formulation of the problem: "What is the performance of profitability in terms of return on investment, net profit margin and total asset turnover CV. Semoga Jaya in 2011 increased compared to 2010, 2009 and 2008? ".The formula - a formula to support the research, namely:To find a way ROI multiplied by Total Assets Turnover Net Profit Margin. To search for Total Assets Turnover by way of sales divided by total assets multiplied by the time. And to look for Net Profit Margin by way of net income divided by sales and multiplied by one hundred percent.From the calculation and analysis, it is known that the return on investment (ROI) was rejected because it decreased by 2%. Net Profit Margin is accepted because of an increase of 2%. And the Total Asset Turnover declined due to decreased by 2.10 times.Judging from the analysis concluded that the companys ability to use the assets of the company overall has increased and decreased, or in other words the total assets of the company management is not efficient, it is this which resulted in a drop in performance return on investment (ROI), Net Profit Margin and Total Asset Turnover CV. Semoga Jaya