Kuala Perlis, 25 Jun 2008, Prof Dr Nursarahaida Saidina Amin, Head of Fluid Dynamics Research Group, Department of Mathematics, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Skudai, Johor, Malaysia, said producing competence engineering mathematicians is very crucial in uplifting the engineering mathematics education in Malaysia. She in delivering a working paper on “Empowering the Mathematics Education in Engineering in the 21st. Century”.
She further added that there are a lot of areas where mathematicians can play importance roles. She gave suggestions and recommendations to improve engineering mathematics education. Among her suggestions are, first, there is a need in matchmaking people to integrate mathematicians and other areas of knowledge, second, mathematicians should engaged in multi-disciplinary areas to broaden the usage of mathematics in life, and third to find more applications to their theory in life. The formulation of mathematical expressions and equations are necessary in bridging the mathematicians and society at large, and the backbone of engineering mathematics is applied mathematics since it solves society’s problems according to the need of community.
On the skills needed to be a good engineer she mentioned that they must have good communication skills, good analysing skills in facing human needs, and good interpersonal skills in dealing with users.
Further research have to be done and she cited that the classical Navier-Stoke theory is only valid for some kind of fluid due to its Newtonian nature, but for Non-Newtonian the Navier-Stoke theory is no longer valid. We have to do more research to get new theories.
She urged mathematicians to establish relationship with engineering faculties and engineering academics societies and in that sense Institute of Mathematics Engineering, UniMAP has a step forward in integrating mathematics and engineering.
She further added that there are a lot of areas where mathematicians can play importance roles. She gave suggestions and recommendations to improve engineering mathematics education. Among her suggestions are, first, there is a need in matchmaking people to integrate mathematicians and other areas of knowledge, second, mathematicians should engaged in multi-disciplinary areas to broaden the usage of mathematics in life, and third to find more applications to their theory in life. The formulation of mathematical expressions and equations are necessary in bridging the mathematicians and society at large, and the backbone of engineering mathematics is applied mathematics since it solves society’s problems according to the need of community.
On the skills needed to be a good engineer she mentioned that they must have good communication skills, good analysing skills in facing human needs, and good interpersonal skills in dealing with users.
Further research have to be done and she cited that the classical Navier-Stoke theory is only valid for some kind of fluid due to its Newtonian nature, but for Non-Newtonian the Navier-Stoke theory is no longer valid. We have to do more research to get new theories.
She urged mathematicians to establish relationship with engineering faculties and engineering academics societies and in that sense Institute of Mathematics Engineering, UniMAP has a step forward in integrating mathematics and engineering.
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