TY  - JOUR
T1  - Challenges in Teaching and Learning Fundamentals of Thermodynamics in Engineering
AU - Sheikh Abdullah, Siti Rozaimah AU - Hasan, Hassimi Abu AU - Markom, Masturah 
JO  - Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences
VL  - 8
IS  - 1
SP  - 29
EP  - 37
PY  - 2013
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1816-949x
DO  - jeasci.2013.29.37
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2013.29.37
KW  - outcome based education
KW  -1st law of thermodynamics
KW  -entropy
KW  -Engineering education
KW  -property tables
KW  -2nd law of thermodynamics
AB  - Introduction to engineering thermodynamics is a core subject 
  for almost all engineering students. It covers the fundamentals of thermodynamics 
  including properties of pure substances, energy transfer and the 1st law of 
  thermodynamics, entropy and the 2nd law of thermodynamics and thermodynamic 
  applications of power and refrigeration cycles. Thermodynamics has always been 
  labeled as a tough and abstract subject by the majority of engineering students. 
  There are a few factors why this tough subject phenomenon still weighs heavily 
  on the students’ minds. First, 
  the students fail to understand the basic concepts of thermodynamics itself. 
  Secondly, most students are not skilful enough in acquiring data from property 
  diagrams and tables such as the steam table. When they do not understand the 
  basic concepts and do not know how to obtain relevant data they will not be 
  able to solve the particular problem. Another factor that students usually raised 
  and complained about is that they have to memorize too many equations. Furthermore, 
  the students fail to relate what they learn from one chapter to another. Based 
  on these factors, the lecturers responsible to teach this course have to take 
  it as a challenge to counter the students’ 
  negative perception by strengthening the basic understandings on the concepts 
  and laws of thermodynamics and assisting the students in acquiring thermodynamic 
  data to solve thermodynamic problems. Hopefully, a thermodynamic course will 
  be famous as an interesting subject not as a tough subject as it is now in the 
  future.
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