Engineering Bachelor Research Articles

ПРОФЕСІЙНА ПІДГОТОВКА МАЙБУТНІХ БАКАЛАВРІВ З КОМП’ЮТЕРНОЇ ІНЖЕНЕРІЇ В УМОВАХ МУЛЬТИДИСЦИПЛІНАРНОСТІ STEM-ОСВІТИ

The article is devoted to one of the urgent problems of training future bachelors in computer engineering in the conditions of multidisciplinarity of STEM education. In particular, the essence of such concepts as STEM education, the analysis of its functioning in the international educational space is revealed. The purpose of the article is to analyze the essence, content, approaches and features of modern innovative STEM education in the preparation of bachelors in computer engineering in Ukraine, as a new and priority direction, taking into account world and domestic historical experience. The main approaches to the implementation of STEM education programs are highlighted: the expansion of educational experience in individual STEM subjects, using problem-oriented educational activities, during which analytical concepts are applied to real world problems, with the aim of better understanding of complex concepts by students; integrating knowledge of STEM subjects to create a deeper understanding of their content, which will ultimately lead to the expansion of opportunities for students to choose a career path in the future; the use of a multidisciplinary approach, which relies on integrativeness in teaching the necessary disciplines, as it is done in real production conditions. Thus, the student will be able to apply his knowledge to solve poorly structured technological problems, develop technical capabilities and more intensively master the skills of highly organized thinking; the introduction of innovations in the teaching methodology of each of the individual STEM subjects. The importance of teachers’ readiness to introduce STEM education is proven, which is due to the fact that in the education system the emphasis is on theoretical subject knowledge, and the connection between learning and solving pract ical tasks remains weak. Therefore, it is important to popularize STEM technologies, organize practice-oriented courses to improve the qualifications of teachers. It is emphasized that the implementation of STEM education programs in the training of future bachelors in computer engineering allows to satisfy the need of the state and society for highly qualified engineering specialists, to increase the interest of modern youth in engineering professions, to significantly improve the quality of education, and to prepare students for real life. Our analysis allows us to consider STEM education as a complex valuable, socially important, systemic-institutional, personal-developmental, process-active and technological phenomenon.

Business sustainability during crisis time in the emerging market: the case of Gunung Raja Paksi, Indonesia

Learning outcomes Upon completion of this study, students will be able to define, explain and describe sustainability and its application in the business context; learn and demonstrate their understanding of current practices, processes and operations in companies that are aligned to business sustainability by identifying such in the case study to enable them to provide relevant examples; discuss and describe sustainable operations and practices across different industries; identify sustainable themes in manufacturing sectors and other related industries; and identify sustainable strategies for production and manufacturing processes. Case overview/synopsis This case study focused on Gunung Raja Paksi (GRP), a steel manufacturing company in Indonesia, with a portfolio in steel trading, cement plants and carbon markets. The case study covered the COVID-19 crisis period, especially the year 2020, which disrupted the normal operations of businesses and subjected the community to economic challenges. The emergence of GRP’s prominence in sustainable business attributed to the initiatives advanced by Kimin Tanoto, the chief executive officer (CEO) and chairperson of the Indonesia Iron and Steel Association (IISIA). Kimin Tanoto assumed leadership of GRP, a family-owned business, in 2018, despite being the second son. At the time of Kimin’s induction into the board of commissioners, two main challenges – the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, which disrupted the supply chains, and the company culture that resisted sustainable business approaches – acted as detriments to profit-making. Sustainable efforts, however, contributed to noticeable success during and after the COVID-19 crisis. Complexity academic level The case is suitable for instructions in undergraduate courses in Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) in Sustainable Resources, Engineering and Management, Bachelor in Sustainable Environmental Management, Bachelor of Culture and Arts in Smart and Sustainable Design, Bachelor in Sustainable Solutions and Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Sustainable Use of Natural Resources, and other instructions on sustainable practices. Supplementary materials Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject code CSS 3: Entrepreneurship.

An Empirical Investigation of Engineering Students' Attitute Towards Sports and Physical Education, Cultural Activities and Stress Management

Abstract: This study gives an empirical perspective regarding engineering students towards sports and physical education, cultural activities and stress management. This research examines various motives for participation and non-participation in various activities. College students involved in lot of stress due to academic work, competition, daily hassles, parental expectations etc. Total sample of 270 respondents who were pursuing Bachelor of Engineering was selected. The students chosen for the study were from departments of Electronics and Telecommunication (E&TC), Computer Science (CSE), Mechanical Engineering (ME), Information Technology (IT) and Electrical Engineering (EE). Chi-square testing was used to taste the stated hypothesis in Research Methodology. This research concludes that students perusing engineering are actively involved in various activities because they are aware of benefit of active participation in sports, physical education and cultural events. At the same time they are also aware about stress management and what are most important causing factors of stress. Result of Hypothesis testing proves that Stress Management is directly proportional to EducationalPerformance & Parental Expectation. Sports activities found significant impact on Physical Fitness whereas participation in cultural events if directly related to Stress Management. Keywords: Stress Management, Physical Education, Cultural Events wellbeing, Sports Events, Mental health.

การรับรู้การใช้ผลคะแนน The Test of English for International Communication ก่อนเข้าศึกษาและก่อนลงทะเบียนรายวิชาสหกิจศึกษาของนักศึกษาสถาบันการบินพลเรือน

This research was carried out in order to investigate the perceptions of Civil Aviation Training Center (CATC) students about the use of the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) results before studying at CATC and before co-operative education enrollment. The objective of this research was to study the perception of using TOEIC results before studying and before cooperative education enrollment and the factors that affected the perception of learning English for the Test of English for International Communication (TOEIC) and study the development of their English language skills for TOEIC preparation in order to propose guidelines for the development of English learning to the TOEIC test by studying and collecting data from 378 participants of 1st and 3rd year undergraduate students of CATC, Bachelor of Technology in Aviation Program in Aviation Management and Bachelor of Engineering in the academic year 2019 by using questionnaires and a random interview of 68 students. The results showed that most respondents get 405-600 English TOEIC score or Elementary Proficiency Plus level. Students were aware that CATC has clearly publicized that TOEIC result would be used for consideration before enrolling and before joining cooperative education. They realized that TOEIC was the one of a reliable and useful English language proficiency assessment. Regarding self-test preparation, it was found that most of the students were good self-learners by being aware that it must be well prepared before the test. They set their own goals in the test and also prepared their own materials used in test preparation. In the analysis of one's own ability, students knew their weaknesses and were able to improve themselves. Students realized that they would receive a higher score after their good preparation. And we also found that the helps and advices from lecturers would make students felt more confident during the TOEIC preparation process.

Individual student key performance using mobile web apps based on knowledge profile and cumulative grade point average

This study investigated the performance of individual students toward the knowledge profile and cumulative grade point average or known as CGPA. The proposal of this paper involves two major components. The first component is investigating the individual student performance based on the knowledge profile and CGPA. The performance of students from cohort 2017 for the program Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEKG) courses in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka (UTeM) was used as the dataset. The case study separates into various groups (excellent, honors and pass). Secondly, the study proposed a responsive web application leveraging a Google Visualization Feature to self-check individual academic performance. The goal of this app is to assist users in evaluating individual student performance and assist management in planning for continual quality improvement using the web and mobile apps. The marketing segments include students, academics, university, and school administration for analysis and evaluate the individual student’s performance.

The 4th Southeast Asian Conference on Geophysics (SEACG) 2022: Great Challenges and Opportunities of Geophysics Today and Future

The Southeast Asian Conference on Geophysics (SEACG) is a biannual event held by the Geophysical Engineering Department, Faculty of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, Institut Teknologi Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. The SEACG has been successfully conducted since 2016, and several selected papers have been published in the IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. The first (2016) and second (2018) conferences were held offline in Bali, Indonesia, while the third conference (2020) was held virtually due to the Covid19 pandemic. Along with the end of the Covid19 pandemic, the current event (2022) is being run as a hybrid conference (physical and virtual), live from Bandung, Indonesia.The conference theme of the SEACG 2022 is “Great Challenges and Opportunities of Geophysics Today and Future.” The program lasts two days, from August 9, 2022, to August 10, 2022, and is sponsored by the Institute of Research and Community Services, ITB. There are 11 invited international speakers (30-minute duration) and 88 contributed speakers (20 min duration) who presented their ideas. With five panel rooms, 35 contributed speakers delivered offline presentations and 53 virtually via Zoom. The speakers, both invited and contributed, presented and introduced new geophysical insights and techniques.The panel discussion featured intriguing topics and invited speakers from various institutions, such as Institut Teknologi Bandung – Indonesia (Dr.rer.nat. R. Mohammad Rachmat Sule, Dr. Tedi Yudistira, Prof. Sri Widiyantoro, Prof. Wahyu Srigutomo, and Prof. Wawan Gunawan Abdul Kadir), CSIRO – Australia (Dr. Erdinc Saygin), Australian National University – Australia (Prof. Phil Cummins), University of Tokyo – Japan (Prof. Takeshi Tsuji), JGI, Inc. – Japan (Moeto Fujisawa, M.Sc.), Ocean University of China – China (Dr. Zhijun Du), and Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris – France (Dr. Jean-Philippe Metaxian). The event was opened by Dr. Fatkhan (the Head of the Geophysical Engineering Master and Doctorate Degree Program, ITB) and closed by Dr. Warsa (the Head of the Geophysical Engineering Bachelor Degree Program, ITB).The SEACG 2022 provided a platform for academics, professionals, and students to discuss and promote scientific results related to recent advancements in geophysical methods and related sciences. The conference covered various session topics, such as Fault and Deformation Study, Passive Seismic, Environmental Geophysics, Geophysical Approaches in Hydrocarbon, Geophysical Approaches in Geothermal, Advance Geophysics, Vulcanology, Tomography, Seismic Hazards, Geomagnetic, and Seismology.We would thank the organization’s team members, the reviewers, and the faculty staff. They have worked very hard to make this event possible. We wish all attendees of SEACG 2022 have an exciting experience and enjoy the moment in this scientific forum.List of Organizing Committee, Documentation are available in this pdf.

ПЕДАГОГІЧНІ УМОВИ ФОРМУВАННЯ ФАХОВОЇ КОМПЕТЕНТНОСТІ МАЙБУТНІХ БАКАЛАВРІВ З АГРОІНЖЕНЕРІЇ У ПРОФЕСІЙНІЙ ПІДГОТОВЦІ

The article examines the problem of formation of professional competence of future bachelors in agricultural engineering during their professional training. The urgent need for the training of highly qualified, goal-oriented, competitive specialists in the agro-industrial production area has been confirmed, which has been updated in connection with the significant renewal of their professional activities in the conditions of digitalization of the economy of Ukraine, and the introduction of innovative approaches to the organization of modern educational space. The article aims to define and justify the pedagogical conditions that can ensure the effective formation of professional competence of future bachelors in agricultural engineering during their professional training. In the research, a complex of methods was used: a content analysis of the crucial concepts of the research, generalization of advanced pedagogical experience to identify and justify the pedagogical conditions for forming professional competence of future bachelor in agricultural engineering in the professional training process. It has been proven that the practical activity of future specialists of agricultural engineers involves the use of achievements of psychological, pedagogical science and experience, and forming professional competence of future bachelors in agricultural engineering should be aimed at training them as professionals who are competitive, capable of successful professional activity, professional development and mobility, capable of solving the challenges, set tasks and problems in the field of agro-industrial production and to meet the needs of the labour market. Forming professional competence of future bachelors in agricultural engineering in higher education institutions will be effectively carried out under the condition of identifying and taking into account the features of their professional training, which are determined by the specifics of professional activity; orientation on the individual motivation of the professional training of future bachelors in agricultural engineering and compliance with the modern development of education; determination of the main pedagogical conditions for forming professional competence of future bachelors in agricultural engineering in professional training. The following main pedagogical conditions for forming professional competence of future bachelors in agricultural engineering during their professional training process have been determined, including ensuring systematic interest and forming positive motivation for mastering the chosen profession; development of the subject content of the cycle of professional training of future bachelors in agricultural engineering; the use of innovative technologies for the purpose of forming professional competence of future bachelors in agricultural engineering in their professional training; formation of professional and personal qualities of the future agricultural engineer; mastering the practical experience of the future professional activity of an agricultural engineer. It has been concluded that each specified pedagogical condition should positively contribute to the effective formation of professional competence of future bachelors in agricultural engineering in professional training with further identification of the peculiarities of their educational activities. The next step in the research of the considered issue is the construction of a criterion base for forming professional competence of future bachelors in agricultural engineering during their professional training.

Naturopathic education in Ghana; Commentary on progress made towards curriculum development

The quest to improve the modern study of Naturopathy in Ghana started in 2016 with professional certifications introduced by the then Nyarkotey College of Holistic Medicine. The college received accreditation from the Traditional Medicine Practice Council (TMPC) of the Ministry of Health. Between 2020 and 2021, the college found the need to take the study of African naturopathy to the tertiary level. The college started its national accreditation arrangement under the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) at the Higher National Diploma and Bachelor of Technology in Naturopathy and Holistic Medicine. The curriculum for Naturopathy was based on Ghana’s harmonized Competency Based Training (CBT). This paper presents a commentary on the progress made toward curriculum development and accreditation for Ghana’s first Naturopathy program at the tertiary level.

Students’ Perception Towards Teaching Practices Among Lecturers With Professional Engineer Certification: A Qualitative Approach

Engineering bachelor’s degree programmes in Malaysia require up to thirty percent (30%) of lecturers in their faculty to have professional engineering certificates. However, the teaching approach by these professionally certified lecturers, compared to those who were not certified engineers has not yet been fully investigated. This study utilised a qualitative approach and selected eight (8) engineering students from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and the Faculty of Civil Engineering in a local university. The aim is to explore these students’ perception of the teaching approaches implemented by the senior lecturers with professional engineer certification, each having vast experience and skills in engineering. The university students were interviewed using an online video conferencing service. The results of this study were then thematically analysed. The results revealed that their lecturers’ mode of teaching usually involves the formation of groups for assignments or projects in the class, besides daily teaching using slides. By doing assignments in groups, it is believed that students will have a better understanding of the subjects. However, most of the students revealed that they have problems performing the assignments, despite realising the importance and advantages of these group assignments. Working together on an assignment would create good team spirit and instill good communication skills. They understood the purpose of pursuing their bachelor’s degree at the university and hope that they could secure their lecturer support and other platforms like YouTube to increase their knowledge in the respective subjects. The students also suggested that the university and their faculty could provide sharing sessions from other experts in engineering as well as improve the facilities, and Wi-Fi connection on the university campus.

Development of Creative Thinking Skills of Bachelor Engineers Based on STEM Technology

In today's dynamic, rapidly changing world, a bachelor's engineer needs to have creative thinking skills in order to be successful in their professional activities. A future graduate must learn to see the problem as a whole, and not in the context of one area of science or technology. This causes the education system to develop and implement innovative forms of engineering personnel training aimed at solving practice-oriented, research problems. The authors considered the issue of applying an educational model that combines natural sciences and engineering subjects into a single system in the process of teaching engineering bachelors. The issues of effective formation of critical thinking skills based on an integrative approach are analyzed. The results of experimental work convincingly prove that the majority of students studying on the basis of the author's methodology have achieved an average and high level of creative thinking skills.

LearningRlab: Educational R Package for Statistics in Computer Science Engineering

This paper describes and evaluates the educational interest of LearningRlab, an educational R package developed for teaching statistics in computer science engineering. The package was developed by final degree project students to be used as an educational environment for statistics students who evaluated the package and provided feedback for future versions. Such a process increases the motivation of both groups of students. This paper presents how the use of the R packages conceived and developed for engineering education can improve the learning process in the computer science engineering bachelor’s degree. Two different evaluations, one performed by a group of statistics students, and the other performed by final degree project students, were used to evaluate the impact on the learning process of the first version of the package to develop the second version of the package, which corrects and enhances the first version. The evaluation results show a positive effect on the learning process in both subjects. The analysis of the learning outcomes reflected in the grades of the experimental and control groups demonstrates that LearningRlab can be used as a teaching aid for statistics and final degree project subjects of the computer science engineering degree. The average laboratory grade of the students who used the package (5.76) was noticeably higher than the average laboratory grade of students who did not use it (1.84).

Analyzing Sustainability Awareness and Professional Ethics of Civil Engineering Bachelor’s Degree Students

Teaching sustainability and ethics to engineering students is a challenging but necessary task that has been increasingly investigated during the last few years. In this research, a systematic method to identify the level of awareness in students about sustainability and ethics is developed. Here, it is applied to students studying the Civil Engineering bachelor’s degree at the School of Civil Engineering of Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), though this method is potentially applicable to equivalent ABET and EUR-ACE accredited bachelor’s degrees. A survey was performed, and data was analyzed using Analytical hierarchical process technique; this technique determines the relative importance of each criterion, as well as the consistency of the emitted judgements, in an objective manner. These results allowed to discover that students do not have a robust opinion related to sustainability and ethics, except those students with previous experience in the construction sector. Environmental and social dimensions of sustainability and ethics were identified as the main focuses to emphasize in the civil engineering curriculum. Finally, actions to boot these principles are also proposed; potential courses where sustainability and ethics concepts could be explicitly included were selected and the inclusion of an environmental budget in the bachelor thesis was recommended, among others suggestions.

Petroleum++: Role of SPE Members and the Industry in the Energy Transition

As many of you know, SPE recently approved its 2023 Strategic Plan. The theme I chose for my presidency is Petroleum ++. As I explained in previous columns, petroleum refers to our continued work in producing oil and natural gas. The first + refers to our role in mitigating climate change concerns, and the second + is about our role in the energy transition and new forms of energy. The industry is already at different stages in this transition, and SPE is working to provide guidance and education to our members through many avenues. I want to talk about how these industry changes are affecting our current and future members and how SPE is helping. We are seeing many oil- and gas-producing and oilfield service companies adjusting to make their businesses sustainable through industry change. Shell’s strategy is “Powering Progress” which names climate change as an urgent challenge and vows it will contribute to a net-zero world. Saudi Aramco is creating value through sustainable business operations saying sustainability factors have become increasingly critical as it aims to balance profitability, environmental protection, and the growth and prosperity of the communities in which it operates. Baker Hughes is “taking energy forward” to make it safer, cleaner, and more efficient for people and the planet, and the newly rebranded SLB is driving energy innovation for a balanced planet. These are just a few of the higher-profile companies making changes in their organizations. Another important change is academia’s response to the energy transition. Globally, universities are expanding curricula for petroleum engineering students. Many are adding research and courses in carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS), hydrogen, geothermal, and mineral processing of coal. Some universities are more closely integrating petroleum engineering, geology, and geophysics courses for beginning students. Penn State, for example, is offering new courses on carbon sequestration, doing new research on hydrogen, and recently opened a new center in mineral processing of coal residuals. The King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals (KFUPM) has strongly integrated its petroleum engineering bachelor of science program with the geosciences department (geology and geophysics). A new concentration in energy sustainability will be introduced in the fall of 2023, which will address energy transition and decarbonization, CCUS, and geothermal and hydrogen production and storage. The University of Texas at Austin (UT) and the Bureau of Economic Geology recently launched a geothermal research consortium called HotRock that will integrate isolated bodies of science and engineering knowledge to broaden and accelerate the scale up of “geothermal power anywhere.” UT launched a new multidisciplinary research and education initiative, Energy Emissions Modeling and Data Lab, in partnership with Colorado School of Mines and Colorado State University to address the growing need for accurate, timely, and clear accounting of greenhouse gas emissions across global oil and natural gas supply chains. These are just a few examples of how universities are helping to prepare future workers for a more integrated industry.

Circle of success—An interpretative phenomenological analysis of how Black engineering students experience success

AbstractBackgroundThough minoritized undergraduate engineering students earn less than 25% of engineering bachelor's degrees, minority‐serving institutions (MSIs) are leading the way in producing a large percentage of those underrepresented engineering bachelor's degree holders. However, much of the published research about the experiences of underrepresented engineering students occurs within the context of predominantly White institutions. Upon deeper inspection into the apparent success of some MSIs, graduation rates of specific minoritized populations (e.g., Black students) remain critically low. This suggests that there is more to be learned about how to better support Black engineering students' success.PurposeWe explored the experiences of Black undergraduate engineering students at a large public doctoral university with very high research activity.Design/MethodWe used interpretative phenomenological analysis to understand the experiences of eight participants.FindingsWe inductively developed two themes to describe how Black engineering students experience success at a Hispanic‐serving institution, which include building success networks and implementing rules of engagement.ConclusionParticipants enacted their cultural capital to construct their circles of success through the intentional engagement of others, resources, and themselves to realize success. This work sheds light on how Black students describe what it means to be successful in their engineering environment.

Claus Braestrup 17 January 1945 to 7 February 2023.

In the summer of 2002, I was elected president of the 17th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology, WorldPharma2010, among others because the three major Danish pharmaceutical companies, Novo Nordisk, Leo Pharma and H. Lundbeck A/S had promised significant sponsorships. One month later, I began a one-year sabbatical at the Saint Antoine Hospital in Paris, and one day in November 2002 I received an e-mail from the famous psychopharmacologist Claus Bræstrup who asked me to give him a call. At the time, he was the research director of H. Lundbeck A/S in Copenhagen. I knew him relatively well but I was not used to receiving e-mails from him, so my first thought was “Oh my gosh, is there a problem with the sponsorship?” But it was not so. It turned out that he was also the chairman of the board of directors of Pharmacology & Toxicology, and he was looking for a new editor-in-chief of the journal to replace Jens S. Schou,1 who at the time had been running the journal for more than 40 years. He wanted to ask me if that could be something for me? To be honest, I was a bit reluctant because I knew that organizing WorldPharma2010 would take a lot of my time, but fortunately I ended up by saying “yes,” and this is one of the best decisions I have made in my career. I went back to Copenhagen for a short meeting with Claus and to sign the contract. This was the only time we met in the context of the journal, because a few weeks later he stepped down as chairman as he had become the president and chief executive of H. Lundbeck A/S. Both of Claus' parents were physicians but he took a different lead and earned a bachelor of engineering in 1967 and a master of biochemistry from University of Copenhagen in 1971. He was a research fellow at the Laboratory of Psychopharmacology at the Psychiatric Hospital Sct. Hans in Roskilde, Denmark from 1971 to 1976. It was here, he discovered the benzodiazepine receptor2 which in fact is not an independent receptor but rather an allosteric modulatory binding site on the GABA-A receptor, and this made him world famous. From 1976 to 1984, he was head of psychopharmacology research at the pharmaceutical company Ferrosan, and when it was acquired by Novo Nordisk, he became head of Pharma Research and Development of Novo Pharma and later of the CNS division and finally of insulin research. In 1994, he was headhunted by the German drug company Schering AG in Berlin, where he was head of the central research division, but 4 years later, he returned to Copenhagen to become executive vice-president of Research and Development at H. Lundbeck A/S until he became the CEO. He retired from H. Lundbeck A/S in 2008. For years, Claus Bræstrup was also a member of the Royal Danish Society of Sciences and Letters, the National Health Science Research Council, and The Danish Academy of Technical Sciences. From 1988 to 1993, Claus Bræstrup was an adjunct professor in neuroscience at the University of Copenhagen and he was awarded the Lundbeck Prize in 1984.

Teaching English for Special Purposes to Bachelors of Engineering and Technology: Corpus Approach and Terminological Units

Teaching English for Special Purposes to Bachelors of Engineering and Technology: Corpus Approach and Terminological Units

Effectiveness of Task-based and Online Approaches in English Language Learning

The purpose of this study is to analyze and validate the role and effectiveness of language labs and task-based learning in the study of English Language. The effectiveness of language labs in learning a new language has been established in several studies mentioned in this paper. The scope of this paper is to investigate the effectiveness on a cohort of Indian students pursuing Bachelor of Technology in a State Private College, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies. The students attend classes once a week for two hours on language learning components based on listening and speaking. For the same cohort of 89 students, there are five evaluations, conducted every alternate week. The evaluations included three spoken or oral evaluation at the beginning of the course, middle and then end. A transcription test based on International Phonetic Alphabet and listening test based on IELTS level 5 were also a part of the evaluation basket. The same set of students taught English via lectures in classroom during the same period for which there were four evaluations. Two sets of data thus obtained, for the same sample. Appropriate statistical test was conducted to analyze the progress students made in a span of six months while taking both courses. The study compares the effectiveness of teaching English language through two delivery mechanisms- language lab and lecture.

African naturopathic education: Ghana’s model using competency-based curriculum

Despite the over 62 years of Naturopathy’s existence in the Ghanaian jurisdiction, no single tertiary program in Naturopathy or Complementary and Alternative Medicine is taught. The practice has not been streamlined and properly structured. Those who engage in the Naturopathic trade mostly receive their education through correspondence from unrecognized and unaccredited foreign schools that teach a limited aspect of naturopathy. : Following the development and approval of two Naturopathic programs; The Higher National Diploma (HND) for training Naturopaths and Bachelor of Technology in Naturopathy and Holistic Medicine, a 5-year program for Naturopathic Physicians, this paper provides a critical evaluation of the curricula approved by the Commission for Technical and Vocational Education and Training (CTVET) in Ghana. This paper employs a sequential two-stage qualitative process. In phase one, the two curricula were submitted to the World Naturopathic Federation (WNF) Canada, for evaluation. Phase two involved a document analysis using the curriculum recommended by the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Naturopathic Federation (WNF), and the South African Naturopathic curriculum. An in-depth evaluation and comparison with the Ghanaian program were conducted, together with abstracted WNF responses which were then analyzed thematically. After the necessary recommendations by WNF were adopted. The two Ghanaian curricula met the international standard. The recommendations also strengthened the mandatory general area of competence in Naturopathic training. The Ghanaian Bachelor’s in Naturopathy has total clock hours of 5,979, which surpasses the South African degree in Naturopathy(5,950) clock hours. The Ghanaian naturopathic mandatory and elective subjects in the curricula meet the international standards. Issues raised by World Naturopathic Federations (WNF) were all addressed to strengthen the program.

Mobile technology as a dependable alternative to language labs and to improve listening skills

There is an incessant gap between language acquisition and adoption of modern technologies, especially in semi-urban parts of economically growing countries in Asia. There is a need to establish infrastructure for Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL), Information Communication Technology (ICT), Virtual Reality (VR), and Augmented Reality (AR) to enrich English Language Teaching. Though these types of establishments instil confidence and fluency among English learners, investment in procurement, running costs towards maintenance and service cost deter institutions from establishing Language Labs and Language studios. The objective of this study was to establish Mobile-Assisted Language Learning (MALL) in higher education institutions and enhance English fluency and accuracy with minimal operation and low maintenance cost. The study also methodologically shortlisted open-source mobile applications based on users' feedback on their user-friendliness, skill-levels, content, and options that promote Learners' Autonomy. A quantitative true-experimental study was conducted at the Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore, India, to develop the listening skills of (n=121) students of first-year Bachelor of Technology in a varied branch. The pre-test and post-test results revealed improvements in the experimental group. The findings would immensely help the underprivileged to serve ESL learners from any part of the globe who intend to enhance their proficiency in English.

Student-Based Community Service Learning to Assess Water Issues in Rural Parts of Virudhunagar District of India

Advancements in science and innovation have been carried out in the state of art engineering design standards for the improvement of humankind. Regardless, there is a basic need to take the benefits of science and engineering and offer reasonable responses for the headway of the overall rural population. The Bachelor of Technology (B. Tech.) in Biotechnology students of Kalasalingam Academy of Research and Education, India (KARE) refined the water-related issues faced by rural people of Virudhunagar district in Tamil Nadu. The students through their custom audits identified specific drinking water and wastewaterrelated issues faced by the rural people in one of the backward districts of Tamil Nadu. Afterward, the students had the option to foster the ideas to devise decisive solutions to the water-based issues of the rural people. The endeavors taken by the students through their half-year community-based projects have made advances in the instructive program to alleviate the water problems faced by the rural community. Besides, the solutions mandated by the students have been tested in this study. The solutions devised and tested by the students are of minimal expense and effectively moderate. Consequently, we prescribe that educational institutions incorporate socially applicable resultbased ventures for addressing the environmental problems of rural communities while enhancing transformational learning through conventional teaching methods to service-learning methods. Keywords— Community service project, drinking water, wastewater treatment, transformational learning