A practice-based engineering degree, in which students worked on real-world, team-based projects from day one and throughout their course, was designed to address the need for employability skills in a rapidly changing world. Teaching mathematics in this way required a very different approach to the lecture-exam based model prevalent in most engineering degrees. In order to ensure all students developed the fundamental skills and knowledge required of engineers, a micro-credential based curriculum was developed where micro-credentials were mapped to projects and delivered “just-in-time”. The curriculum contained forty-eight explicit mathematical micro-credentials in the areas of measurement and geometry, algebra, calculus, and statistics and probability as well as many more micro-credentials in other areas of curriculum that contain mathematical skills, from physics to project budgeting. Mathematical competencies were used as a framework in the design and analysis of the micro-credentials. This paper presents a description of, and reflection on the successes and challenges in implementing this model of teaching mathematics in engineering.

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基于实践的工程：数学能力和微证书

一个基于实践的工程学位，旨在使学生从第一天开始就学习整个团队的现实世界项目，目的是解决在瞬息万变的世界中对就业技能的需求。以这种方式进行数学教学，需要采用一种非常不同的方法来处理大多数工程学位中普遍采用的基于讲座考试的模型。为了确保所有学生都掌握工程师所需的基本技能和知识，开发了基于微证书的课程，其中将微证书映射到项目并“及时”交付。该课程在测量和几何，代数，微积分，统计和概率以及课程其他领域中包含数学技能的其他微凭证，从物理到项目预算。数学能力被用作微证书的设计和分析的框架。本文介绍并反思了在工程中实施这种数学教学模型的成功和挑战。