Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Danilo Garbi Zutin P.E., Carinthia University of Applied Sciences

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Invited - Curriculum Development

Zutin is currently a senior Researcher and team member of the Center of Competence in On- line Laboratories and Open Learning (CCOL) at the Carinthia University of Applied Sciences (CUAS), Villach, Austria, where he has been engaged in projects for the development of online laboratories. In January 2010 Danilo Garbi Zutin was appointed Secretary General of the International Association of Online Engineering. Danilo is author or co-author of more than 20 scientific papers published in inter- national journals, magazines and conferences. Most of these papers are in the field of online laboratories and issues associated with their dissemination and usage

Conference Session

Track 2 - Session I - Curriculum Development

Collection

2013 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Olga V Shipulina, Simon Fraser University

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Invited - Curriculum Development

Page 21.52.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Virtual Environment: A Tool for Developing Students’ Abilities to Apply Mathematics to Real-life ProblemsIntroductionLong ago Freudenthal1 wrote “The huge majority of students are not able to apply theirmathematical classroom experiences, neither in the physics or chemistry school laboratory nor inthe most trivial situations of daily life” (p. 5). Freudenthal believed that mathematics wasneeded not by a few people, but by everybody and as such it should be taught to be useful foreverybody. He pointed out that the problem was not what kind of mathematics was taught, buthow it was taught. Even the fact that the teacher