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8 Useful Tips on Problem Solving

Posted by: joycelee on: September 25, 2007

This is the information that I gathered after doing a research on internet. It helps me alot in my troubleshooting work as an engineer.
#1 Indicators of attainment
How will I know the problem is solved?
What will I accept as evidence?
What does the solved state looked like?
#2 Putting equal attention on the problem state as well as [...]

EID Day 1

Posted by: joycelee on: May 8, 2007

For the next 5 weeks, I will be busy with EID. EID stands for Engineering Innovation and Design. Within these 5 weeks, students in group of 12 will be expected to come up with a product which improves our daily life. Students are heavily involved in hands on on the making of the product as [...]

Does this explanation to this academic strategy hold?

Posted by: joycelee on: March 8, 2007

This is an academic strategy toward aceing your studies that my friend proposed yesterday. He said that the more difficult a subject is, the easier it is to get an A. Strange, isn’t it?
Why did he say that? He said that it is this kind of subjects that turn more students off from studying them [...]

Mentos + Coke = Explosion

Posted by: joycelee on: January 28, 2007

Perhaps, you will think twice when you decide to eat mentos with coke after watching this video clip. Does your stomach burst if you do so? Well, no one actually prove it and there is no health warning yet. So as a precautionary measure, don’t take any candy with carbonated [...]

Reading Skills Part 4: Retention Techniques

Posted by: joycelee on: January 21, 2007

1. Underline, circle, make margin notes.
Not highlighting the whole page like some students do! Usually you will not mark more than two or three items per page, and many pages will have no markings. Marking pages increases recall — do you have a marked-up Bible? If you do, you can almost “see” the page [...]

Reading Skills Part 3: Rapid Reading Techniques

Posted by: joycelee on: January 20, 2007

1. Raise your speed- comfort level.
How comfortable are you speeding in a car? How fast do you have to go before you feel you are “on the edge?” 70 MPH? 90? 120? How about 210 MPH, the speed the Indy car drivers can average? Get the point? Some people have learned to drive faster; [...]

Reading Skills Part 2: Getting Ready to Read

Posted by: joycelee on: January 19, 2007

So, we’re ready to read. But don’t read the book yet. There are a few steps to take first.
FIRST: ELIMINATE ALL DISTRACTIONS: Get rid of ANYthing your mind could think about besides the reading material. Is there conversation? Activity? TV? An uncomfortable seat? Music in the background? (OK OK, I know many of my readers [...]

Reading Skills Part 1: Reading Myths

Posted by: joycelee on: January 18, 2007

This is actually an article posted up by Sangho in the comments section. Thanks Sangho for the hard work! It is a very good article and I recommend all of you to read.  For easy reading and digestion, I have decided to break this article into parts which will be posted up day by day.
So [...]

Unlease Your Creativity

Posted by: joycelee on: November 29, 2006

People seem to have the misconception that only a select few are able to unleash a steady flow of creative genius. That is not true at all. The fact is, creativity is very much like a muscle that needs to be exercised in order to consistently give out great results. If you don't practice harnessing [...]

#8 Link It Up: Barium Can Become a Poison too!

Posted by: joycelee on: November 17, 2006

I hate studying for my chemical practicals when I was in my secondary school. I don't understand why teachers made students do test tube experiments guessing what are those unknown compounds. Not knowing the value behind conducting these chemical experiments is  one thing and another thing is about memorizing the solubility of different compounds are [...]


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