Carlo Gabriel is a licensed Mechanical Engineer, an Engineering Tutor, and a researcher. As a mechanical engineer, he served as a Building and Site Coordinator. His industry experienced involved plant and machine operations which include supervision, operations, troubleshooting and staff training. He gained various certificates and trainings while working in industry. He has also written the Standard Operating Procedure of machine operations in an industry where he worked for. As an academician, he served as an adviser in various student projects and student academic organisations and served as a resource speaker in seminars. At present, he is teaching Engineering courses such as Engineering Project, Risk Management, Thermodynamics, etc. and serve as facilitator in SIT2LRN at Southern Institute of Technology. He has strong communication and presentation skills, articulate ideas clearly and concisely and skilled in facilitation of seminars, trainings and conferences using popular education methodologies.
Carlo enjoys working with students very much, he has a positive attitude and a passion to assist and motivate struggling learners. He is patient and understanding of the difficulties in wrapping one’s head around a problem.
His major interest aside from teaching is engaging into research studies. His recent research entitled “Enhancing Students’ Learning to Solve Word Problems in Thermodynamics based on Newman’s Error Analysis” has been presented in various symposiums/forum (Engineering Tutor’s Forum, Christchurch; TERNZ symposium, Wellington; and Otago/Southland Symposium, Invercargill) in New Zealand. The said study was also published in SITJAR (Southern Institute of Technology Journal of Applied Research).
His other research study this year is entitled “Motivation, Self-Efficay and Anxiety in Learning Engineering Fundamentals.” Carlo presented the findings at both the Southern Institute of Technology and Otago Polytechnic (SITOP) Research Symposium held in Dunedin on November 4th, and the Australasian Association of Engineering Education Conference held in Brisbane in December, 2019.
2019 has been a very successful year for Carlo in terms of research. He won the award for Best Presenter of a 15 minute presentation at SITOP and was nominated for the Engineering New Zealand Engineering Education Award in 2019. Carlo was also invited to be a member of the reviewing panel for the Australian Association of Engineering Education (AAEE) for the 2019 Conference.
Carlo Gabriel plans to take his further study in Ph.D. in Engineering Education very soon. In his spare time, Carlo enjoys playing badminton, writing, travelling and spending quality time with his family.