Plenary Lecture

An Overview of Psychological Aspects and Human Factors in Scientific Engineering Education

Dr. Philippe Dondon
ENSEIRB
1 rue A.Schweitzer, 33400 TALENCE France
E-mail: Philippe@Dondon@enseirb.fr

Abstract: This presentation focuses on historical, cultural, and social evolution in the French Society. The impacts on Engineering Education are highlighted. And many questions are generated by the behaviours and needs of the students, the behaviours and hopes of the teachers and researchers. Till now the University was essentially focused on technical and technological knowledge transmission. But these recent human changes in the last decades correlated to technical evolution, work organisation modifications, generated some misunderstanding in the pedagogical approach. Some new difficulties appear and it becomes necessary to take into account the human and psychological factors in the pedagogical process.
Based on French national statistics and a deep observation of what happen in French university since 1990, we describe the major evolution in student’s and teacher’s behaviours and this paper shows interesting parallels in daily life, professional life and education world. In both cases, the major difficulties come from the human being and communications rules. The consequences on the teaching efficiency are discussed and many concrete examples are given to illustrate these situations.
Becoming conscious that the human being is the key of motivation in learning process, we speak about possible ways of investigation to improve the efficiency and the quality of teaching. Some important psychological aspects of teaching are described such as relation between teachers, teachers and students. Among different possible human approaches, we suggest some of them that can be easily transposed into the field of Education. Thus, Yoga techniques and others psychological approaches such as “coaching”, N.L.P (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and so on, are powerful tools to help the teachers in human being management, students relation and personal evolution. Some concrete results we obtain in our electronic school are given to illustrate the interest of theses techniques. Finally, we invite all the colleagues to share our experimentation, to think about, and to test, if necessary, theses approaches, in order to get a global and international feedback.

Brief Biography of the Speaker:
Dr. Ph. Dondon was born in 1960. After his electronic engineer diploma in 1983, he worked first 5 years as product manager in T.R.T, a French radiocommunication systems company. Then, he received the Ph.D.in Bordeaux from IXL laboratory in microelectronic design in 1992.
He has a great experience in electronic teaching and is also involved in pedagogy method process.
He is also working on motivation and psychological process of teaching with Yoga masters and psychotherapist.
He has published more than 35 papers in Journals and international Conferences. He took five patents in micro electronic circuits design.
Scientific Activities (research, publications, projects, etc….)
power electronic, infrared thermography, analog integrated circuits,
WSEAS Activities
last significant papers :
WSEAS 7-10 july 2003 Corfu (Greece)
-"E-learning on the web : The necessary fusion of the computer techniques, graphical arts and psychological aspects" Philippe Dondon, Patrice Kadionik
WSEAS engineering education July 2005, Vouliagmeni Greece :
- “An original pedagogical approach for teaching digital modulation “Philippe Dondon, J.M Micouleau
WSEAS EDUTE ‘06 16-18 decembre 2006 Tenerife
-“Neuro linguistic programming: a personnal development tool applied to the pedagogy and to the improvement of teachers/students relations” J. Legall – Ph. Dondon
Chaiman in WSEAS/IASME conferences in EDUTE 2005/2006.