%0 Journal Article
%T Engaging African engineering students with problem
%A Arthur J Swart
%J International Journal of Electrical Engineering & Education
%@ 2050-4578
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0020720918767052
%X Problem-based learning identifies problems in ways that are conducive to student learning and emphasizes problem-solving, critical thinking and collaborative skills. These three aspects are core to disassembly¨Cassembly techniques used in higher education where students are required to engage with visual, auditory and kinesthetic learning within a laboratory environment. The purpose of this article is to describe a disassembly¨Cassembly technique used in a compulsory engineering module and identify how many African engineering students can successfully create a problem (disassemble a two-stroke motor) and then correctly solve the problem (assemble the two-stroke motor back to a working condition). A longitudinal study involving quantitative data is used with descriptive statistics. Results indicate, that on average, 85.5% of African engineering students can successfully engage with the disassembly¨Cassembly technique. A possible recommendation is to encourage more academics to make use of the disassembly-assembly technique with regard to engineering systems, equipment or machinery
%K Dissection
%K skills
%K learning styles
%K active
%K visual
%K auditory
%K kinesthetic
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0020720918767052