RE: lug_: Cellphone detector, cheap

[Dorothy Okello]

A similar experience was the case for the fourth year Electrical 
Engineering students. They had objectives and milestones to achieve over 
the course of the year. So for example, during the project presentations 
which were held just the other week, in the cases where a project 
supervisor reported that the student had only shown up two to three times 
over the year, those students were not allowed to present their projects 
and were not awarded a grade. Essentially, these students were found to 
have an integral component of the project lacking. The compromise solution 
was to allow each of the students an additional three weeks.

Dorothy

At 07:36 AM 7/22/2004, you wrote:
>  Somehow students are leaving the project til the last month. I am not
>sure why this is.
My experience which was not Makerere is that the project superviser with the
student set project milestones which were mearsured over the year.  This
meant that if you did the project in the last month you actually failed
since a big chunk of the project was to do with the ability to project
manage.  Since the outcome of the project rarely goes beyond the report and
presentation, the skill we employers tend to be looking for is the ability
for the student to originate and idea but also manage the time so as to
deliver the project on time.

>But I've found that the propensity to do nada among students is a bit
>too high to be explained just by the lack of time.
Maybe we need to make sure that students are not actually just passing time
at uni but have an interesting.  Some kind of career guidance might be
helpful to motivate the students.
My 2 pennies
Badru Ntege

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