MATR 2313 THERMODYNAMIC OF MATERIALS CASE STUDY “Relationship Between College Student – Professor Miscommunication and Thermodynamics” Prepared by DANIAL FAIZ BIN ZULAINI 171294 Prepared for DR MOHD HANAFI BIN ANI Due date 18th December 2020 Introduction In new era of globalization, there are huge changes that happen in this world. The technology is improved, the style of wearing clothes is different and many more. The communication among human interaction also changed due to this alteration. As this change happens, the new generation tend to have less communication verbally with others as they stick to their gadgets all the time which lead to lack of good values on communication skill. In education world, more mis-communication cases between college student and professors are reported worldwide. This situation will produce a bad vibe between them and can cause awful effects. It is important to avoided this mis-communication because it will be affected both moral. Teachers or professors are some of the most influential people in the society and have great importance in building a nation. Thus, “the college student should improve their communication skill towards professors because communication skills are vital for a student’s academic success and future career prospects” (Lucanus, 2017). Problem Analysis This problem occurs due to lack of good values and manners. As a college student, they should know the proper way or manners to have a communication with the professor either online or verbally. Besides, the college student also needs to respect the professors no matter what is happening because she or he are older than them. Some of the professors maybe will no take it as a problem but it still as a mannerless or rude. Other than that, “Good communication enables students to assimilate more from the learning process by empowering them to ask relevant questions and discuss doubts” (Lucanus, 2017). Thus, if the student is playing around with asking nonsense question or being rude it will trigger some of the professor angers. In communication term between the college student and professor, the scope that involved are the interaction in online platform such as email and personal message, consultation meeting, in class session and outside of the class. All these scopes student should aware the situation and need to speaks or communicates properly and more important with manner. “Your instructors are not your friends. Correspond with them as if you’re in a workplace, because you are.” (Peeves, 2014) More than that, nowadays college students become mannerless due to the exposure of social problems. There are no boundaries in accessing in the social media and they feel like become manner person is not relevant. Thus, that is why this problem become serious issues. Problem solution As for the solution, student college must learn manner first on how to communicate to the elders especially professors in education fields. College student must use proper and professional correspondent when meeting or asking professor. Other than that, when get criticize by the professor, college student must admit and accept it and bounce back with the right thing. It is very normal when people doing mistake and get scolded because professor also a human. They want to share and give student college the right thing because student college is seeking knowledge. Thus, if an instructor takes a red pen and massacres your writing, that’s a sign that they care. Giving negative feedback is hard work, so the red ink means that we’re taking an interest in you and your future. Moreover, we know it’s going to make some students angry at us. We do it anyway because we care enough about you to try to help you become a stronger thinker and writer. “It’s counterintuitive but lots of red ink is probably a sign that the instructor thinks you have a lot of potential” (Payton, 2020). Next, if student college facing a trouble or get late to the class or submission of the assignment. They need to explain properly and politely. This action is very crucial and will teach student to have a manner and good value. “All professors will have their own individual preferences about the following guidelines, so when in doubt, always, always, always ask your professors about their communication preferences” (Zgoda, 2020). If college student met a strict professor and not consider for mistake then accept the criticize and bounce back. Relation with Thermodynamic When there is a heated argument between lecturer and student, the energy changes of lecturer-student binding as assume it is an isolated close system will disorder or unusable energy. From thermodynamics point of view, based on the second law of thermodynamic it concerns more on entropy. “It states that the entropy of an isolated system increases over time”. (Shapley, 2012). A system cannot be ordered as the energy is not added since in this case is in isolated system. Thus, to calculate the energy between the professor and college student, Gibb free energy equation will be used. ∆𝐺 = ∆𝐻 − 𝑇∆𝑆 Because the entropy change can't be used for work, the maximum efficiency for energy conversion is the ratio of the change in the Gibb's free energy and the change in enthalpy, G/ H. “The greater the entropy change and the higher the temperature, the lower is the efficiency” (Shapley, 2012). ∆𝐺 𝑇∆𝑆 = 1− ∆𝐻 ∆𝐻 As for the phase diagram, if the college student and professor heat energy increased, then the pressure will also increase thus the slope can be obtained by using the maxwell relation. Briefly, if the heat exchange between the college student and professor were in closed system the entropy and enthalpy can be different as the heat and work were exchange between the system and environment. Conclusion Generally, as the world develops the student attitudes also change however it can be avoided by learning the manners and common sense so that the communication or relation between both of them can be better. It is also essential to have a good relationship with the professor because he can be more comfortable while sharing knowledge to the college students. Student need to aware at all situation and apply the good value when meeting or having a discussion with the professor. If both of them have less heat argument energy, thus the pressure between them also will be less. This theorical were taken to the thermodynamic point of view. For instance, if the argument between them were assumed in closed system, it is possible that other people can absorb the heat as other people are assume surrounding and the professor and college student are the system. This problem can be settled down if college student realized that respecting professor are very important because this good deed will be used in future especially in working environment. References Lucanus, A. (2017, November 21). The College Puzzle. Retrieved from Oral Communication Skills Are Important for Students: https://collegepuzzle.stanford.edu/oral-communication-skills-areimportant-for-students/ Payton, Q. (2020). Retrieved from How to Write an Email to a Professor: https://collegesofdistinction.com/advice/how-to-write-an-email-to-a-professor-collegefreshman-guide/ Peeves, P. (2014, August 25). The Society Pages. Retrieved from Sociological Images: https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/08/25/professors-pet-peeves/ Shapley, P. (2012). 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