As suspected, based on the Learning Style Inventory Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ), I learn more through visual and tactile preference.
Since I was a child, I am more intrigue in learning through
visual aids in front of me. I get excited whenever my parents were putting
drawings in our small black board at home; my father set-up a black board at
home as his way of teaching us at home. I can retain more information that way
and I can still vividly recall some of the learning experience I have had
during my kindergarten class; those clay moulding still sticks in me.
Fast forward to my apprenticeship in a power plant, I prefer
and learn more if am to write down all the specific data, set points, alarms
and logic diagram in a small notebook, and then browsing it every now and then
for reference, eventually memorising it by heart. I still have those
commissioning records from about 15 years ago written in a small pocketbook.
Most of the time, I can easily explain certain scenarios
involving my job as a power plant controller by using visual aids, drawings,
and piping and instrument diagrams (P&ID) to my colleagues and managers. I
can easily visualise what’s on the field through process flow diagrams and
learn from actual tracing those process flow diagrams in the field rather than
someone explaining it to me verbally.
In my technical background in power plant, where a lot of
technical aspects should be learned and heaps of parameters need to be known by
heart, I find it helpful to use highlight items for easy referencing. This
technique works also in the Piping and Instrument Diagrams (P&ID) wherein
common practise in the field is to highlight valves and instrumentation that
needs to be isolated or closed for maintenance to proceed with their troubleshooting.
As a common practise in my field as well is to double check all relevant
isolation before and after maintenance to avoid incidents and accidents.
In an engineering background, colour coding is a legislation
as part of a code in designs and specifications. As an Engineer, we are trained
to follow certain sets of colour coding in all aspects of civil, electrical,
mechanical, architecture, and instrumentation. (AS1100)
I am equally interested to read books or magazines if the visual
representation or cover are of good design; colourful and vibrant, this really gets
my attention. I am aware as well that I am good in solving puzzles, it
challenges me in a way that I will really put a lot of attention on it, or even
spend a lot of my time cracking it. Board games attracts me as well,
particularly chess. There are a lot of moves that is almost not the same as
previous games of chess, but all moves are pre-destined already.
In this day, with all the advancement we have made in the
field of education, there are really a lot of facets that will help us improve
our learning curves. With the generation of internet, YouTube, and the influx
of knowledge-based influencers, we can almost always learn from them by simply
accessing social medias and find things that interests you. One clicks of a button,
and you are all set to explore your imagination.
Reference
AS
1100.101-1992 Technical drawing - General principles (saiglobal.com)
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