This project proposes to engage students as curriculum co-creators to re-design the first-year mathematics curriculum for Electrical/Electronic Engineering students at MTU.
The overall aim is to improve retention rates in first-year mathematics by making mathematics more relevant, interesting and engaging for students. We envisage that this can be achieved by using digital tools in mathematics to solve authentic engineering problems. In parallel, this re-design will also align engineering mathematics curricula with how engineering maths is used in the real world where computers are used to perform routine calculations.

Partnership is both a process and a product so we anticipate two significant outputs. The product is a re-designed, mathematics curriculum which leverages computers and digital tools to enable students to apply key mathematics principles, concepts and ways of thinking to authentic engineering problems. The second is a process for co-creating engineering curricula which equally values the student and staff voice. In this process we recognise that different partners bring different experiences and skill-sets but together there is the potential to design a really interesting and innovative curriculum.

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