Conference Session

Humanitarian Engineering, Social Entrepreneurship and Communitarian Innovation in the Global South

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Janneth Salinas S, Minuto de Dios University Corporation; viviana Garzon, UNIMINUTO; IVÁN DARÍO GARCIA P.E., UNIVERSIDAD MINUTO DE DIOS; Miguel Gonzalez, Universidad Minuto de Dios

Tagged Divisions

Community Engagement Division

students in engineering programs is around 25%. According to the Ministry of Education, one of the reasons is related to students failing Pre-calculus courses more than once, caused probably by math competences low level upon university admission, low motivation for this subject and disconnection with real context problems. OCDE 2015 report explains this fact since it states that high school students in Colombia score 390 points in mathematics below the OECD, Chile (423 points) and Mexico (408 points) average in the PISA1 test. To design and implement a possible solution to this challenge, a team of researchers from 'Corporación Universitaria Minuto de Dios- UNIMINUTO, created a robotics curriculum adapted to the pre