Critical Thinking Skills in First-Year Engineering Students

Santiago, Lizzie; Pirkey, Anika Coolbaugh; Veeramachaneni, Sai Sadhika

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“…In order to do that, engineering students need to develop their skills in using background knowledge to questions gained information, analyzing complex issues, synthesizing information to make reasonable conclusion, evaluating the data, and solving challenging problems. However, previous research on the use of critical thinking in Engineering mainly investigate students' perspective on critical thinking definition and activities (Douglas, 2012), how critical thinking is used to solve operational chemistry and physics problems (Özsoy-Güneş, Güneş, Derelioğlu, & Kırbaşlar, 2015), and the development of critical thinking for non-calculus ready students (Santiago, Coolbaugh, & Veeramachaneni, 2016). How engineering students develop their critical thinking through speaking practice seems overlooked.…”

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Critical thinking skill is crucial for higher education students. However, the development of critical thinking for engineering students has been overlooked. The previous research on students' critical thinking in higher education mainly focuses on Humanities and Social Sciences department. Therefore, this research aims to evaluate engineering students' critical thinking ability in English public speaking. A case study was carried out on 28 students (18 Males, 8 Females) of Telecommunication Engineering faculty at Institut Teknologi Telkom Purwokerto. The study found that students had the potential to be critical despite their lack of English vocabulary and poor pronunciation ability. They developed critical thinking by understanding the context given, gathering relevant sources as analysis resources, evaluating the gathered information through discussion, and generating the solutions. Evaluative teaching strategies that encourage scaffolding and learning autonomy are needed to enhance their critical thinking.

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Importance of Communication Skills and the Needs of Engineering Students from Rural Areas

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Engineering study is considered as one of the major fields of study all over the world. Mostly the web content, the research works of various researchers and their studies, journals article, are written in the English language. So, it is considered to be essential for the second language learners especially for grabbing the opportunities of employment. The students who opt engineering needs to be good in the English language because it is very important for the academic life and it helps them to prosper in their professional life too. If the students fail to have good acquisition in the English language, they are unable to understand the important concepts and ideas conveyed by the writers in English. This present paper tries to highlight the significance of English and how lack of English knowledge can reduce the opportunity of employment. The researcher has given some solutions to overcome the issue.

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Critical Thinking Skills in First-Year Engineering Students

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