This report documents pilot study of an industry-oriented maths approach within four Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics’ Bachelor of Engineering Technology (BEngTech) programmes. It aimed to discover support required by students to be able to apply the purely theoretical maths taught in the current course to industry related maths problems.
The finding could be transferable to other subject areas, for example, mathematics courses in finance, health and computing.
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Background:
A project, completed in 2015, to identify and test an industry-oriented maths approach within four Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics’ Bachelor of Engineering Technology (BEngTech) programmes.
This is important to the learner as achievement in mathematics is integral to other aspects of the engineering programme. Understanding the mathematical underpinning of engineering processes is a basic building block of all engineering disciplines, although the ways these are applied to the different engineering specialties does differ.
A collaboration of Otago Polytechnic, Waikato Institute of Technology, Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology and Wellington Institute of Technology.
Research report prepared by Ziming Tom Qi.
Co-funded by the Ako Aotearoa Regional Hub Project Fund (RHPF)