There are students who are now in 5th year in ECE don’t have best performance in soldering the component’s terminals into the PCBs. The soldering skill was being considered and assumed to be simple and easy to deal with, but sad to say few students were able to perform well. This phenomena about poor soldering skills were also true to the professionals, because of the fact that they don’t care the importance of this skill.
November 12, 2007 at 1:13 pm |
they don’t mind if they can’t properly solder terminals into a PCB, because it’s not that necessary for their future career, nuff said…
November 12, 2007 at 1:31 pm |
Maybe? That’s why most of their projects failed during the evaluations of their professors…..jehzlau, thanks for dropping-by.
November 15, 2007 at 6:30 pm |
They may not have the best soldering skills because, maybe, they excel in other fields, like designing. Besides, soldering is not as easy as you say it is. I have poor eyesight and even if I wear glasses, looking in detail at the soldered ends (while soldering) is still hard. Also, some people are not as dexterous as others. I have friends who can splice wires (wires above 2.00 sq. mm, stranded and/or solid) very well yet they have bad handwriting. (Though handwriting is NOT soldering, the point is that they do good work in objects with sizes that can be easily held and manipulated yet they are not as good when it comes to work where it involves precision, accuracy, and consistency, especially if it is very small.) Furthermore, I think that good soldering output also depend on good tools. Unfortunately, some of these 5th year ECE students are financially blessed. Some have soldering irons with ends that are rusted or bent. Some may have soldering irons that have high wattage (i.e. hotter than is preferred) and cannot buy low wattage ones.
I would also like to add that if soldering is so easy, then you should not single out the 5th years. If it is easy, then the practice that third years have should be enough that when they are 4th years, they should be at par with the 5th years in soldering skills. Though the 5th years are ahead in terms of experience, the mastery of the skill should be acquired around the 4th year (that is, if it is truly easy). What I’m saying is, look at your 4th (even 3rd) year students’ skills also.
I will, however, agree with you that some of these students are indeed poor when it comes to soldering because they did not do their best and had no plans to do so. These students make the other students look bad. What I want to point out is, do not look at every poorly soldered project as a product of a lazy and unenthusiastic student. Some of these projects may belong to those who are not blessed with the skills, abilities (e.g. eyesight) and/or money.
November 16, 2007 at 2:57 am |
maybe the teachers did not teach them the proper way. In our school, there’s no subject which specializes in soldering. anyway, what the student know is what the teacher taught.
November 30, 2007 at 10:23 am |
ooppz.. d ako kasali dyan.. hahaha.. kaw sir ha.. gina away nimo ang uban.. ehahahha
December 25, 2007 at 10:00 am |
Sir, I was your studes before from USEP. How are u?If you can help I’m currently reviewing all by myself with the internet utilities as my source of information. Can u help me give more reference so that to add in my studies.Hope u could make it somehow. my email is edmalbores@gmail.com