IMPROVING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ELECTROMAGNETIC THEORY EDUCATION BY INCREASING THE LEARNING MOTIVATION

Year 2015, Volume: 2 , 226 - 230, 01.09.2015

Şule Berna Ayan Mehmet Yüksekkaya

Abstract

Electromagnetic theory course is currently
taught in many institutions and in many disciplines. However, this course
usually has difficulties in capturing the glance of students especially for
undergrads in disciplines which are not focused on concentrated mathematics
education. The common reasons are that the course has mostly theoretical
concepts, it needs a well mathematics background and it usually does not have
any practical application. Since active and experimental education is usually
more attractive to the undergrads in engineering, theoretical courses are
difficult for them especially for biomedical engineering undergrads. For this
reason an electromagnetic theory course with its laboratory and a project work
is developed to increase the motivation of the students and it is planning to
be taught for sophomores in Başkent University Biomedical Engineering Program.

 

In order to make the course more
attractive firstly, a survey has been completed for different electromagnetic
course taught worldwide and syllabus has been updated. Secondly, visual and practical teaching materials are
searched for the electromagnetic concepts and they are classified. Thirdly, laboratory experiments are organized and test
devices and materials are ordered. Finally, a plan for teaching electromagnetic
theory is advised. 

 

This paper explains the walkthrough to make the electromagnetic course
more attractive to the students. In the paper the methodology for efficient and
attractive learning and syllabus design are discussed. 

Keywords

Electromagnetic theory, learning motivation, electromagnetic laboratory, active learning

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