Revisiting the engineering mathematics curriculum offered to engineering undergraduates

Abstract

Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) is an engineering university. Among the courses that undergraduates are required to take are the Engineering Mathematics 1, Engineering Mathematics 2, and Engineering Mathematics 3. Institut Matematik Kejuruteraan acts as a service centre to offer the courses to students from various engineering fields. The engineering mathematics curriculum is established to provide students with appropriate mathematical theories, principles and applications to be applied in their engineering branches. The engineering mathematics syllabusis taken by electrical and electronics based engineering, mechanical based engineering, bio-process engineering and bio-medical engineering students are the same. It is the primary goal of this reserach paper to identify wether the engineering mathematics curriculum has successfully bestowed the mathematics reqiurements to the undergraduates. Various issues including the relevance of the particular topics covered in the syllabus to meet the engineering needs, the suitability of common or standard engineering mathematics curriculum to be different engineering fields, the appropriate applications topics for in class discussions and some othe posted problems will be discussed.