Current and future teaching of engineering mathematics to civil engineering students : issues relating to empowering and enhancing critical and creative thinking skills
The future engineering curriculum should be built around developing skills with much focus on shaping analytic skills, problem-solving skills, and design skills. Future engineers must be educated and prepared to be creative and flexible, to be curious and imaginative. Substantially, surveys and...
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| Language: | English |
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Penerbit UTM
2008
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/19270/1/ShahrinMohamad2008_CurrentandFutureTeachingofEngineeringMathematics.pdf http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/19270/ |
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| Summary: | The future engineering curriculum should be built around
developing skills with much focus on shaping analytic skills,
problem-solving skills, and design skills. Future engineers must be
educated and prepared to be creative and flexible, to be curious and
imaginative. Substantially, surveys and findings have also revealed
that most employers and educational institutions recognize the
importance of effective critical and creative thinking skills,
especially among engineers. Despite the current demands, there
have been some marked significant complaints relating to the
capability among engineering graduates and young engineers to
transfer methods and knowledge from one discipline to another.
This ability forms an essential and necessary condition for pushing
the boundaries of engineers’ thinking. Mathematics being integral
to engineering, is becoming ever more indispensable as the
complexity of engineering tasks grows and abstract information
processes start playing an essential role in technology. This is a strong indication that fluency with mathematics is an essential
weapon in the modern graduate engineer’s armory. Hence the
teaching of mathematics to the engineering undergraduates too is
never spared from the current requirements and demands. This
paper seeks to explore and examine the current and future teaching
of engineering mathematics to undergraduate civil engineering
students at Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM) pertaining to the
empowerment and enhancement of critical and creative thinking
skills. |
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