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Engineering MATHEMATICS: BRIDGING BETWEEN MATHEMATICAL THEORY AND ENGINEERING PRACTICE - EXPERIENCE IN UTHM Phang Chang and Phang I a u centre of science studies, UTHM abu dhabi Abstract: 'we hope to reduce the gap beiwe between mathematical iheory and engineering pracrice among undergraduate engineering students'
Engineering MATHEMATICS: BRIDGING BETWEEN MATHEMATICAL THEORY AND ENGINEERING PRACTICE - EXPERIENCE IN UTHM Phang Chang and Phang I a u centre of science studies, UTHM abu dhabi Abstract: 'we hope to reduce the gap beiwe between mathematical iheory and engineering pracrice among undergraduate engineering students'
Engineering MATHEMATICS: BRIDGING BETWEEN MATHEMATICAL THEORY AND ENGINEERING PRACTICE - EXPERIENCE IN UTHM Phang Chang and Phang I a u centre of science studies, UTHM abu dhabi Abstract: 'we hope to reduce the gap beiwe between mathematical iheory and engineering pracrice among undergraduate engineering students'
ENGINEERING MATHEMATICS: BRIDGING BETWEEN MATHEMATICAL
THEORY AND ENGINEERING PRACTICE - EXPERIENCE IN UTHM
Phang Chang & Phang ~ i a u * Centre of Science Studies, Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia ABSTRACT The objective of reaching mu/hemu/ics lo engineering srudenls is to Jnd the right balance between in-depth understanding and praclical applications of mathemarical equations. There are inslances /ha/ srudents are unable to utilize the mathematical knowledge they have learned in engineering fields. In /his paper, we discuss this balance and some pracrical ways of achieving it based on our experience as a themafician in the teaching of engineering mathenia~ics to engineering students at University Tun Husssein Onn (UTHM). Here. our first ,focus is to discuss the instruclional j?amework on how we inlegrate the modeling of elenlentary electrical circuit systems into Engineering Malhemalics in the Faculty of Electrical and Electronic since 20041'05 academic session. Students' response will be shown. On top ofthat, our second focus is to present dtferent ways on how to handle engineering mathema/icsproblen?s, for example in elementary circuit analysis, ngalhenzaticians will derive the Ordinary Differen~ial Equations first, bul eleclrical engineers converl [he RLC circuil to domain-s whereby bolh are "mathematically equivalenr ". Besides that, hi s arlicle offers plenty of relevan1 examples including algebraic method and residue n~elhod in partial fraction, dflerenl wuj~s to obtain Fourier series expansion and so on. Through this, we hope to reduce the gap beiween mathematical iheory and engineering pracrice among undergraduate engineering students. Keywords: Engineering mathematics 1.0 INTRODUCTION Undoubtedly, proficiency in mathematics is a fundamental necessity for any successful engineer. The Board of Engineer, Malaysia (BEM) in its accreditation manual, mentioned that mathematics subjects should be studied to a level necessary to underpin the engineering subjects of the course and with a bias towards application in teaching. In undergraduate engineering courses, there are many attempts to make the engineering students more proficient in mathematics. Implementation of problem-based learning and usage of mathematical packages are few ways that receive an increasing attention in many of the engineering colleges in Malaysia. Another approach which is widely being used in other countries is integrating modelling skills to the future engineers. Huang (2005) mentioned that mathematical modelling has always been an important activity in science and engineering education. By doing this, hopefully, students are able to transfer a problem in the real world to a mathematical problem and solve it analytically or numerically. The process is so-called mathematical modelling. Here, our first focus is discuss the instructional framework on how we integrating modelling elementary electrical circuit systems into Engineering Mathematics in The author now auached l o Dcpartrnent of Compul at~onal Sc~cnce and Mathematics, Faculty or Computer Sc~encc and Informalion Technology, Unlversirl Malaysia Sarmrak 94300 Kota Samarahan. Sarawak 6.0 REFERENCES Board of Engineer Malaysia (2002). Engineering Programme Accreditation Manual. p60. Erwin K.(1999) Advanced Engineering Mathematics. 81h Edition. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Charles K.A. and M.N.O. Sadiku (2007).Fundamentals of electric circuits 3rd Edition.Boston: McGraw-Hill. Hamid Chaachoua and Ayse Saglam (2004) Modelling by differential Equations. In e- books of 1 Olh International Congress on Mathematical Education, Copenhagen. http://www.icme-organisers.dMtsg20/Chaachoua-Saglam.pdf Huang, D. F. (2005). An Objective-Oriented Approach for Teaching the Electrical circuit System Modelling. iCEER-2005. Joshua M.P. and Anthony T.C. (2005). An Instructional Framework for introducing Wavelet-Based Problem Solving Techniques to Advanced Civil Engineering Students. Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education Melvin A.Nyman and John B. (2002). Developing Transferable skills in undergraduate mathematics students through mathematical modeling. Teaching Mathematics and its Applications. Vol. 21, No.1; p29 - 45 Mohd Najid (1998). Penyelidikan Pendidikan. Skudai: Penerbit Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. p109 Ola Royrvik (2002). Teaching Electrical Engineering Using Maple. Int. J. of Electrical Engineering Education. Manchester: Vol. 39, iss. 4, p297-310. Sazhin (1 998). Teaching Mathematics to Engineering Students. Int. J. Eng Edu, Vol. 14; No. 2, p145-152