ICT Application in Engineering Education

Nowadays, ICT seems to be an important factor for a development of a country. This mean that the development of a country is depends on how advance the technology was. Therefore, due to that reason, the ICT application was widely used in engineering education to produce the best in engineering courses for the development of a country. First and foremost, what is ICT mean? The word of ICT stands for Information and Communications Technologies. ICT can be defined as the used to describe the exciting and innovative ways to provide lifelong learners with global access to information, learning and support. It is the information systems that are seamlessly linked to learning support systems, that are enjoyable to use and which enable management.

There are various uses of ICT in engineering education. As we know, the technologies are improving day by day. So, we also need to update us to follow the current trend. For example, in University, most of the lecturers are using the ICT devices such as the laptop and projector in teaching. They used the laptop connect with the projector and print out the contents on laptop screen to the white board so that students can have a better learning way to learn the knowledge. Due to the research, human can easily learn and remember something easily through color, graphic and story. Therefore, through the colorful graphic that print out by ICT devices like projector, students can easily understand and remember the knowledge that taught by their lecturers.

Besides that, one of the subjects called Computer Aided Drafting or (CAD) also an important subject for engineering courses. It is because engineering is something about the machine. So, the skills on how to draft out the design of a machine are very important for engineering students. Therefore, to learn the skills of CAD, there are CAD rooms which are special for students to learn the skills of drafting by using the computer. The interior of CAD room are full with the ICT devices like computers to ensure each student can have their own computer to learn the skills with the software that was installed in the computers.

Furthermore, the understanding to a machine is also important for engineering students. Moreover, before they finish their diploma or degree, they need to attend the industrial training to finish their studies. Because of that, there is one subject called Machining Workshop Practice for students. The main purpose of this subject is to let the students have the knowledge on the parts of the machine, how to operate it, and what can the machine do. Besides that, students can also learn the ways on how to operate the machine by using the ICT equipments such as Lathe machine, Grinding machine, and Milling machine to create the work piece that assigned by their lecturers. As a sentence say, “Practice make perfect”. Therefore, theories and practical are equally important and cannot be neglecting each other.