Field or discipline: Mathematics
Program: Bachelor of Mathematics
Course: System Modelling
Year level: 3
Class size: 30
Activity type: Project
Aim:
Use discipline knowledge; develop liaison, teamwork and communication skills.
Description:
For a course in modelling, groups of students choose a project from a list, discuss the project and agree aims with an industry partner, construct a mathematical model to represent the problem, undertake analysis, write a report and present the results.
The benefits of this activity are that it addresses several graduate qualities and allows the students to gain a sense of professional accomplishment by organising projects. It also assists the student to gain an understanding of the need to develop their own networks/contacts outside university.
Implementation:
This idea comes from personal history. I still recall the learning experience that engaging in such a project gave me. Organising the project demands a lot from the lecturer. Probably it could not be done by commencing lecturers, it requires some time to build up the connections in industry to ask them to be partners.
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