Engineering mathematics: bridging between mathematical theory and engineering practice - experience in UTHM
The objective of reaching mathematics to engineering students is to find the right balance between in-depth understanding and practical applications of mathematical equations. There are instances that students are unable to utilize the mathematical knowledge they have learned in engineering fields....
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| Summary: | The objective of reaching mathematics to engineering students is to find the right
balance between in-depth understanding and practical applications of mathematical
equations. There are instances that students are unable to utilize the mathematical
knowledge they have learned in engineering fields. In this paper, we discuss this
balance and some practical ways of achieving it based on our experience as a
themafician in the teaching of engineering mathematics to engineering students at
University Tun Husssein Onn (UTHM). Here. our first ,focus is to discuss the
instructional framework on how we inlegrate the modeling of elenlentary electrical
circuit systems into Engineering Malhemalics in the Faculty of Electrical and
Electronic since 2004/05 academic session. Students' response will be shown. On top
of that, our second focus is to present different ways on how to handle engineering
mathematics problems, for example in elementary circuit analysis, mathematicians will
derive the Ordinary Differential Equations first, but electrical engineers convert the
RLC circuil to domain-s whereby bolh are "mathematically equivalent". Besides that,
his article offers plenty of relevant examples including algebraic method and residue
method in partial fraction, different ways to obtain Fourier series expansion and so on.
Through this, we hope to reduce the gap between mathematical iheory and engineering
practice among undergraduate engineering students. |
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