education system

In the first part of the lesson Jani was the secretary, he did it really well, so in my opinion he must become a secretary in the real life too. :D
After that we talked about a video, which I watched on monday and the rest of the group during the first week. This video was about the education systems nowadays and it is called "Schools kill creativity", but I think it is not a good title for this video, because it was mostly about, how children can waste their talent, because of the wrong ecudation system. More or less I agree with the guy in the video, but I think that children must detect their ablilities and skills at first. I mean, they need to try maths, phyisics, history, etc. and of course sports and arts, too. After that they will be able to decide, what they would like to do/work in their whole life. I strongly believe that decision could be made, when they are around 15 or 16 and after this decision they could focus on the subjects, they have chosen before. But many, many things depend on their parents and teachers, too. In my opinion the conclusion is, that the education system need to be refreshed and it must be more interesting and close to the children.
In the end of the lesson, we finished our third activity about the efective e-mails, which was solved in pairs (I worked with Béla).

Thursday

In the first part of the lesson, we checked the previous secretary's wiki and blog. This way, we are able to give advices to the bloggers, how they could develop their blogs and they can correct their mistakes.
Then we talked about the conclusions of the second activity, which was about the images. For me the main conclusion was, that it is much easier to make a good first impression with a nice photo, than to remedy a bad one. And the other one is, that the most important things are the eyes in these pictures. You can become a friendly, serious, responsible, confident (… etc.) person anytime, when you want, by a suitable glance.
We also had a discussion, how we can ask questions correctly. I believe, it was really useful and important one day before the Pedro Duque interview. So we corrected some questions, which could be answered only with a 'yes' or 'no'.
In the end of the lesson, we got a new activity about how we can write e-mails in an effective way, but we were not able to end this activity, so next time we have to solve this problem.We also had a discussion, how we can ask questions correctly. I believe, it was really useful and important one day before the Pedro Duque interview. So we corrected some questions, which could be answered only with a 'yes' or 'no'.In the end of the lesson, we got a new activity about how we can write e-mails in an effective way, but we were not able to end this activity, so next time we have to solve this problem.
We also had a discussion, how we can ask questions correctly. I believe, it was really useful and important one day before the Pedro Duque interview. So we corrected some questions, which could be answered only with a 'yes' or 'no'.In the end of the lesson, we got a new activity about how we can write e-mails in an effective way, but we were not able to end this activity, so next time we have to solve this problem.

First time

I registered for the course "Communication skills in Engineering" on Tuesday and on Wednesday I had my first lesson.
I was a bit anxious, since I could not imagine how a lesson goes on. In Hungary, the education is totally different. In my opinion the spanish one is more practical. Students must participate in the lessons in a more active way. Here, we are able to explain our opinion every day and we work in groups or in pairs mostly, but on my home university we have more lectures and less practice.
In my first lesson I had to introduce myself to the others, then János was appointed to be my mentor and he gave me a lot of useful advices about the subject. In every lesson, there is a secretary, who is chosen from the students and he or she is responsible for presiding over. We checked a wiki and a blogpost, chose the best ten questions, which will be answered by Pedro Duque (a spanish astronaut) on Friday. After that we analysed profile images from the Virtual Campus and we could realize how important a good profile picture is, if we want to make a good first impression.

Communication skills in Engineering

My name is Dávid Gergő Szabó. I am a hungarian Erasmus student, who study on the Universidad Europea de Madrid from february until the end of June. I arrived to Madrid on 6th of february, so I was not able to apply to any architect courses, but I could participate in an intensive spanish course until the end of the second trimester.
During the first week of the third trimester, I realized that some of the courses, I have choosen before, are in spanish, because there were not enough students, who wanted to study them in english. After that I had to search for some other subjects in english. That is the reason, why I am studying communication now, but I strongly believe, that it will be really useful, because an architect also has meetings and conferences sometimes, so I hope I will improve my communication skills and my english too.


This is a picture of my spanish university and the website of the UEM.
www.uem.es