MATMATH Challenge
Would you like to have audiovisual educational resources that address materials engineering challenges in connection with mathematics? What if the resources were created by the university students themselves accompanied by professionals from both disciplines?
The EELISA MATMATH Challenge is a pilot challenge-based learning experience within the framework of the Degree in Materials Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. It is about students developing learning competencies and transversal skills while addressing a real problem.
*The proposal “MATMATH: MATerials and MAT(H)ematics” was selected in the “CALL FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EELISA PILOT EXPERIENCES OF CHALLENGE-BASED LEARNING IN SUBJECTS OF THE OFFICIAL DEGREES OF THE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY OF MADRID” for the academic year 2023- 2024.
*The Call is financed through a subsidy from the Ministry of Universities, under “Royal Decree 1059/2021, of November 30, which regulates the direct granting of various subsidies to universities participating in the “European Universities” project of the European Commission”, of which the Polytechnic University of Madrid is a beneficiary.
Participation requirements
To be enrolled in mathematics II, a subject of the Degree in Materials Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
Challenge task
The challenge here is to promote interdisciplinary university training, generating audiovisual educational resources that connect materials engineering with mathematics and, in general, with basic science, within the framework of sustainability. This global challenge is broken down into a series of local challenges. In each challenge, materials engineering professionals ask a question related to sustainable materials and a team of students has to be able to explain the scientific keys to the problem in a short video. The videos selected for their quality are viewed in an event in the presence of the external agents who proposed the challenges and form a video library as a resource for training in materials engineering and other STEM degrees, once the appropriate permissions have been obtained.
Max. teams: 10
Max. team participants: 4
