Remote Learning in Applied Engineering


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2022-05-12

Remote Learning in Applied Engineering

Today, Mouhamed Abdulla joins us to speak about remote learning in applied engineering. Mouhamed is a professor of Electrical Engineering at Sheridan Institute of Technology.

He began with an insight into how he taught engineering courses before and how he is teaching now. Before the pandemic, he and his colleagues scarcely used online learning tools but had to learn to teach with learning management tools after the pandemic. 

The professor spoke about the challenges he faced with the new style of teaching. He explained how it was difficult for international students to get the necessary equipment for the online lab sessions. Also, he talked about the challenge with purchasing more expensive equipment and how he had to restructure the labs from scratch to fit the new reality. He further discussed the key takeaways from the entire experience.

Mouhamed then delved deeper into his paper, Remote Teaching and Learning in Applied Engineering, where he indicated the impact of the different waves of COVID-19 in Toronto, Canada on higher education. He discussed how he and the students went through those periods of uncertainties in the classroom. In addition, he highlighted the bottlenecks in evaluating the effectiveness of the online classes as students were reluctant to participate in online classroom activities. Mouhamed explained the present state of things in the classroom after over two years since the pandemic. He also talked about the projections for a hybrid learning post-COVID. 

Mouhamed touched on how he and his colleagues have managed to deal with a major challenge with online learning - plagiarism. He explained how plagiarism checkers such as Turnitin were not enough to establish the integrity of a student’s assignment submission. Meanwhile, speaking of the positives of remote teaching, he revealed how the pandemic opened up the possibilities for an effective yet cheaper alternative to labs. 

Finally, he spoke about a book recently published by Springer Nature he co-authored with other international contributors on teaching and learning. The book discusses how different countries approached teaching during the pandemic and the future of education. The preprint of the book chapter is freely available on Europe PMC (which is used by WHO) or arXiv. You can follow up on Mouhamed’s work on his Faculty Profile Page or his Academic Website.

Mouhamed Abdulla, Ph.D.

Mouhamed Abdulla, Ph.D., is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Sheridan College in Toronto, Canada. Since 2015, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, and a Visiting Research Fellow at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Before that, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS), University of Québec. He has 7 years of industrial experience with IBM Canada Ltd as a Senior Product Specialist. He regularly serves as EU Expert Evaluator for Research Executive Agency (REA), European Commission; as Subject Matter Expert for IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) for the IEEE Wireless Communications Engineering Technologies Certification Program (WCET); as Voting Member for IEEE P2040 Standard for Connected, Automated, and Intelligent Vehicles Working Group; as Member for the IEEE Industry Committee; and as a consultant for various SMEs on Smart Cities. He received respectively a B.Eng. (with Distinction) in Electrical Engineering, an M.Eng. in Aerospace Engineering, and a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, all at Concordia University in Montréal, Canada. He became a registered Professional Engineer with Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ) in 2003. His research interest and expertise are in Engineering Education, Engineering Design, and Wireless Communications. His applied research work has been funded, among others, by the Consortium for Research and Innovation in Aerospace in Québec (CRAIQ), Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), the European Commission, Ericsson Research, and Bell Canada.


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