TY - GEN
T1 - Impact of Pre-professional Practices on the Excessive Mental Workload of University Engineering Students
AU - Corrales, Cesar
AU - Rojas, Jonatán
AU - Atoche, Wilmer
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020, The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - The excessive mental workload in university students of Engineering careers is an important factor that affects their performance and their health and that, therefore, it is necessary to investigate. The purpose of this study was to examine the academic performance of students who develop their pre-professional practices, to see the impact of time dedication to work in companies and the excessive mental workload resulting in this dedicated time. For this, the industrial engineering students of a Peruvian university were taken as a study sample, focusing on determining the mental workload in university students, and how this influences their academic performance. This is evident when the students, in addition to carrying out their regular studies, must develop their pre-professional practices in companies in the industrial sector, for an average of two to three months, with a dedication of at least 30 h per week, with the expected consequences in their academic performance. For this, the impact of the practice was identified in a group of students attending the seventh and eighth academic semester during the period between 2018 and 2019. Subsequently, the number of credits carried by the students who do not develop pre practices is analyzed. professionals and a student who does carry professional practices and how this influence, in the variables of average grades, in the standardized coefficient of performance and in their cognitive abilities. Finally, the application of a mental workload assessment tool was included, which validated the hypothesis of the excessive mental workload that students have during that period and the negative impact it has on the performance of the majority of students involved. These results can be used to better balance the academic load of the students, so that they do not affect their studies as is the case so far.
AB - The excessive mental workload in university students of Engineering careers is an important factor that affects their performance and their health and that, therefore, it is necessary to investigate. The purpose of this study was to examine the academic performance of students who develop their pre-professional practices, to see the impact of time dedication to work in companies and the excessive mental workload resulting in this dedicated time. For this, the industrial engineering students of a Peruvian university were taken as a study sample, focusing on determining the mental workload in university students, and how this influences their academic performance. This is evident when the students, in addition to carrying out their regular studies, must develop their pre-professional practices in companies in the industrial sector, for an average of two to three months, with a dedication of at least 30 h per week, with the expected consequences in their academic performance. For this, the impact of the practice was identified in a group of students attending the seventh and eighth academic semester during the period between 2018 and 2019. Subsequently, the number of credits carried by the students who do not develop pre practices is analyzed. professionals and a student who does carry professional practices and how this influence, in the variables of average grades, in the standardized coefficient of performance and in their cognitive abilities. Finally, the application of a mental workload assessment tool was included, which validated the hypothesis of the excessive mental workload that students have during that period and the negative impact it has on the performance of the majority of students involved. These results can be used to better balance the academic load of the students, so that they do not affect their studies as is the case so far.
KW - Human factors
KW - Mental workload
KW - Stress
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85088576075
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-51549-2_57
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-51549-2_57
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85088576075
SN - 9783030515485
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 437
EP - 444
BT - Advances in Physical, Social and Occupational Ergonomics - Proceedings of the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conferences on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, Social and Occupational Ergonomics and Cross-Cultural Decision Making
A2 - Karwowski, Waldemar
A2 - Goonetilleke, Ravindra S.
A2 - Xiong, Shuping
A2 - Goossens, Richard H.M.
A2 - Murata, Atsuo
PB - Springer
T2 - AHFE Virtual Conference on Physical Ergonomics and Human Factors, the Virtual Conference on Social and Occupational Ergonomics, and the Virtual Conference on Cross-Cultural Decision Making, 2020
Y2 - 16 July 2020 through 20 July 2020
ER -