Learning engineering to teach mathematics

Ferrer, Josep; Peña, Marta; Ortiz, Carmen del Rocío León

doi:10.1109/fie.2010.5673349

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“…In this session, several applications of electricity in alternating current were explained, in which the use of complex numbers was necessary to solve these problems. See [38] for further information. The applications dealt in this session were:…”

Section: Students' Mathematical Contentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this session a simple electrical network (Figure 3) was solved in order to demonstrate that mesh fluxes are a basis of conservative fluxes. See [38] for further information. E being the set of possible current distributions, it was demanded to find the subset F⊂E verifying KCL (Kirchhoff's Current Law); that is, at each of the nodes sum of input currents must be equal to the sum of output currents.…”

Section: Session 4 (Mesh Fluxes: a Basis Of Vector Subspace Of Conservative Fluxes)mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Moreover, it helps students to develop skills and competencies, such as continuous learning, autonomy, teamwork, critical thinking, communication and planning [36], which are considered very important in their profession [37]. Furthermore, theory and practice are integrated, and motivation is enhanced, which results in increased academic performance [38][39][40][41]. Another approach to math education based on action learning has been considered in [42].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mathematics Training in Engineering Degrees: An Intervention from Teaching Staff to Students

López-Díaz

Peña

2021

Mathematics

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There has always been a great concern about the teaching of mathematics in engineering degrees. This concern has increased because students have less interest in these studies, which is mainly due to the low motivation of the students towards mathematics, and which is derived in most cases from the lack of awareness of undergraduate students about the importance of mathematics for their career. The main objective of the present work is to achieve a greater motivation for engineering students via an intervention from the teaching staff to undergraduate students. This intervention consists of teaching and learning mathematical concepts through real applications in engineering disciplines. To this end, starting in the 2017/2018 academic year, sessions addressed to the teaching staff from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain were held. Then, based on the material extracted from these sessions, from 2019/2020 academic year the sessions “Applications of Mathematics in Engineering I: Linear Algebra” for undergraduate students were offered. With the aim of assessing these sessions, anonymous surveys have been conducted. The results of this intervention show an increase in students’ engagement in linear algebra. These results encourage us to extend this experience to other mathematical subjects and basic sciences taught in engineering degrees.

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Section: Students' Mathematical Contentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Session 4 (Mesh Fluxes: a Basis Of Vector Subspace Of Conservative Fluxes)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Mathematics Training in Engineering Degrees: An Intervention from Teaching Staff to Students

López-Díaz

Peña

2021

Mathematics

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“…As additional material, guidelines for each technological area addressed to faculties without engineering backgrounds are defined. Some material on Electrical Engineering has been already published ((Ferrer et al, 2010)). Here we focus on control and automation.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%