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Improving Core Mathematical Skills In Engineering Undergraduates, Michael Carr
Improving Core Mathematical Skills In Engineering Undergraduates, Michael Carr
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A large number of engineering undergraduates being their third level education with significant deficiencies in their core mathematical skills. Every year, in the Technological University Dublin (DIT) , a diagnostic test is given to incoming first year students, consistently revealing problems in basic mathematics. It is difficult to motivate many students to seek help in the Maths Learning Centre to address these problems. As a result, they struggle through several years of engineering, carrying a serious handicap of poor core mathematical skills, as confirmed by exploratory testing of final year students
In order to improve these skills in engineering students …