Having a strong interest in mathematics and physics led me to pursue a degree in Electrical Engineering in the National University of Singapore.
A firm believer in having education beyond academics and also a passionate sports enthusiast, I participated actively in the schools co-curricular activities and was a member of the badminton and swimming team in my secondary school as well as the captain of my college swim team. Seeking new challenges, I also joined the Aquathlon team in the National University of Singapore.
Active participation in sports and having the opportunity in leadership has helped me to developed in numerous non-academic areas such as teamwork, communication skills as well as leadership skills.
Sunday, October 19, 2008
Saturday, October 11, 2008
One Important Learning Experience From This Project
Throughout this project, there has been a great number of learning opportunities and personally, I feel that one of the more significant learning experiences for me has been learning to recognise the importance of having background knowledge on an issue when communicating with others and also trying to discern the depth of this understanding of the person we are communicating with. Being able to understand each other's level of understanding is essential for effective communications as doing so would allow either party to be able to set the pace and clarity of communications without assuming any level of understanding above what is understood. As such, it could reduce the barriers which would arise from communicating at a different level of understanding.
During the course of the project, we are exposed to communications between various groups of people such as my group mates, friends and also our preceived audience and respondents for our survey. As such, it became important for us to recognise that there are various levels of understandings between individuals and it was important for us to discern this level of understanding to help us adjust our style of communications to promote efficiency. For example, the way in which we would communicate within my group mates with regards to the research question would be different from how we would communicate with our friends while the way we communicate with our survey respondents would also be different from the above two. Communicating within my group mates was taken at a much faster pace as there was a certain level understanding of the issue and we were able to communicate based on certain assumptions. Communicating with our friends or rather people whom we know, would allow us to take it at a different pace based on how well we perceived them to understand and also the level of familiarity allows for easy clarification. However, when communicating with our survey respondents, or people whom we do not know, it is difficult for us to perceive a person's level of understanding and thus to make any assumptions on any issue or termilogy could lead to misinterpretation which can become detrimental to each other's understanding. Furthermore, being strangers to one another would also serve to impede clarification.
However, while it may be pointed out that, we should not make any form of assumoptions while communicating regardless of the audience, I feel that it is important for us to do so to allow efficiency when communicating. Thus, I feel that throughout this course, one of the important leanring experiences I had was learning to communicate differently with different groups of people based on how we discern their level of understanding of the issue to increase efficiency in communications.
During the course of the project, we are exposed to communications between various groups of people such as my group mates, friends and also our preceived audience and respondents for our survey. As such, it became important for us to recognise that there are various levels of understandings between individuals and it was important for us to discern this level of understanding to help us adjust our style of communications to promote efficiency. For example, the way in which we would communicate within my group mates with regards to the research question would be different from how we would communicate with our friends while the way we communicate with our survey respondents would also be different from the above two. Communicating within my group mates was taken at a much faster pace as there was a certain level understanding of the issue and we were able to communicate based on certain assumptions. Communicating with our friends or rather people whom we know, would allow us to take it at a different pace based on how well we perceived them to understand and also the level of familiarity allows for easy clarification. However, when communicating with our survey respondents, or people whom we do not know, it is difficult for us to perceive a person's level of understanding and thus to make any assumptions on any issue or termilogy could lead to misinterpretation which can become detrimental to each other's understanding. Furthermore, being strangers to one another would also serve to impede clarification.
However, while it may be pointed out that, we should not make any form of assumoptions while communicating regardless of the audience, I feel that it is important for us to do so to allow efficiency when communicating. Thus, I feel that throughout this course, one of the important leanring experiences I had was learning to communicate differently with different groups of people based on how we discern their level of understanding of the issue to increase efficiency in communications.
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