Conference Session

Project and Model-Based Mathematics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Dennis Berkey, Worcester Polytechnic Institute; Bogdan Vernescu, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

and the faculty advisors work on the initialformulation of the problem, bearing in mind that appropriate projects need to involve, besides theindustrial importance, a significant need for mathematical modeling and computations. Once thestudents start the work, they need to appreciate the engineering significance of the problem andthe mathematical tools needed to attack it. Almost always, students need to learn the engineeringlanguage, so often foreign to them, and at the same time they usually need to learn moremathematical theory. Students discover that real-life problems are very different from textbookproblems, as the former come almost always incompletely formulated, with messy data and arenot preceded by a math lesson for which these are

Conference Session

Project and Model-Based Mathematics

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Schmeelk, Virginia Commonwealth University; Jean Hodges, Virginia Commonwealth University Qatar

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

Analytical Courses," co-authored with Dr. John Schmeelk at the April 2006 meeting of Middle East Teachers of Science, Mathematics and Computing (METSMaC) in Abu Dhabi. Page 12.1199.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 PROJECT-DIRECTED MATHEMATICSAbstractThe authors examine the learning preferences work of Ricki Linksman, founder of the NationalReading Diagnostic Institute in the United States and author of How to Learn Anything Quickly.In an earlier study, they theorized that female MATH 131 students at Virginia CommonwealthUniversity Qatar (VCUQ) were probably visual and tactile right-brained

Conference Session

Innovative Instruction Strategies in Calculus

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Martha Allen, Georgia College & State University; Amy Kelley, Georgia College & State University

Tagged Divisions

Mathematics

new or recent Ph.D.s in mathematics. Page 12.598.1© American Society for Engineering Education, 2007 Emphasizing Teamwork and Communication Skills in Introductory Calculus CoursesAbstractIt is widely recognized that teamwork and communication skills are important outcomes inundergraduate engineering curricula. At our institution, the program goals in the mathematicsdepartment, which apply to our pre-engineering majors, also reflect the necessity of these skills.Student course exit surveys analyzed by the department indicated that communication skills, bothwritten and oral, were not integrated into the