Teaching Engineering and Computer Graphics to Foreign Students
O. V. Kornuta O. V., Tetiana O. Pryhorovska · Education and Pedagogical Sciences · 2014
Today more than 60000 foreign students study at Ukrainian universities.Most of them are from the oil/gas producing states of Africa and Asia.These students are interested in studying at Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas, which is a major university of oil/gas prospecting, exploration, and transporting.Thus, they are interested in being employed at international oil and gas producing companies.Foreign students have different entrance-level education, so firstly they take preparatory courses.Except Ukrainian language, they study mathematics, chemistry, physics, English, and basics of computer sciences.This way, foreign students not only consolidate their knowledge of these subjects, but also learn technical terms in Ukrainian and English.These students are highly motivated to study; they always work hard to get as much as possible from their learning.However, they face some challenges during their study.The purpose of this work is to define the challenges of teaching Descriptive Geometry and Engineering and Computer Graphics to foreign students and to describe the methods and didactic principles used during the first year of study.Engineering and Computer Graphics course is one of the basic engineering courses.The integration of the traditional engineering graphics theory and advanced computer technology is a trend of the engineering graphics development.The challenges of teaching engineering graphics are well analyzed in both Ukrainian and world scholarly literature.Authors always cite positive experience, presented in the publications by Claus Putz, T. Vereshchagina, Huanyun Wang, Chunhui Pan, M. Helenowska-Peschke, et al. [1 -4].The faculty members of the Engineering and Computer Graphic