Portfolio 4:Difficulties in My Engineering Classes
As an engineering student, I encounter lots of new knowledge which contains various fields of subjects. My real feeling is that these new-learned knowledge is quite hard and it is uneasy for me cope with them well. More than the professional knowledge, because English is not my first language, so this is another difficulty for me.

Take EG1108 as an example, this is a fundamental module for electrical engineering students so it is very important for me to learn it well. This module mainly covers the field of electricity and its application. Before entering university, I have gained some basic knowledge about it, which makes it easier for me to learn this module. I found that the difference between this module and things I have learned before is that EG1108 is more specific and more focused and it broadens my previous knowledge. As a consequence, its difficulty will definitely increase. I think it is impossible to handle it well if only attending the lecture and doing the tutorial. So after each lecture, it is necessary for me to think carefully about things taught by the lecturer, I will look for help from textbook, friends and tutor if I cannot understand something and solve them as soon as possible. I become more proficient by doing this. Also I will see lots of technical words every lecture, to avoid the difficulties in understanding the knowledge caused by these new words, I gradually form the habit of preview. I will read the lecture notes before class so I have a rough idea about what I’m going to learn that lecture and I will look up those technical words at the same time so that I would not feel confused about the knowledge because of language.

Learning is a process and everyone has his own difficulties. To me, by taking the suitable methods, I am confident that I will improve gradually.