The aim of the special issue is to bring together important current international research on
innovative teaching and learning practices in mathematics in engineering education, and to …

Motivation is frequently studied in the context of engineering education. However, the use of
the term motivation can be inconsistent, both in how clearly it is defined and in how it is …

The goal of SEFI's Mathematics Working Group (MWG) is to provide a discussion forum and
orientation for those who are interested in the mathematical education of engineering …

Engineering students particularly struggle with mathematics in the first year of their university
studies. A result of these difficulties are high drop-out rates among the engineering students …

A central problem in undergraduate mathematics education for future engineers consists in
the perceived and actual relevance of the mathematical content. One strategy to strengthen …

In this paper, we present a range of formative assessment types for engineering
mathematics, including in-class exercises, homework, mock examination questions, table …

MP2-Math/Plus is a support project for engineering first-years at Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Its aim is to prevent unnecessary drop-out. Conceptualisation and development of the …

Too difficult, too abstract, too theoretical–many first-year engineering students complain
about their mathematics courses. The project MathePraxis aims to resolve this disaffection. It …

Six US first-year university students in humanities or social science degree programmes
were interviewed while solving 4 tasks on continuity and asymptotes in a required …

This contribution presents the idea of modifying exercises from a mathematics service
course on the basis of analyses (in the sense of the Anthropological Theory of the Didactic) …