1.1 BACKGROUND
Engineering is the discipline, art and profession of acquiring and applying technical, scientific, and mathematical knowledge to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and processes that safely realize a desired objective or invention. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering, Line 1-3)
Engineering, as we all known are one of many important factors in becoming an advanced country. In engineering lays variety of expertise such as aerospace, chemical, electrical, electronic, mechanical and civil. From this entire main field, the world now has extensions of engineering such as material, software, computer, nanotechnology, microwave, multimedia, molecular, optical, mechatronic and telecommunication.
From public point of view from anywhere in the world, engineering, whether the course, field or subject, had been considered as the toughest thing to be learned unless that person is a hard working, have lot of interest for it or genuinely want to contribute to the mankind. So to make a better understanding about engineering, a lot of methods of studying been introduced in different levels of learning institutes.
Lectures, laboratories, assignments, projects or mini-projects and even examinations are common learning methods practiced everywhere in order to make better understanding about engineering.
1.2 PURPOSE
Though different learning systems been introduced, students, majority of them still could not pull through either in learning engineering subjects or even finish engineering courses in their respective learning institutes contributing to few number of available engineers here in our country.
The objective of this research is because we want to find out best study mode/modes that are beneficial for students in the future and also because to find out what students lack of when it comes to learning engineering subjects. For this, our main participants are focused on Multimedia University