MAPS - Mathematical Application Project Server for Engineering Students

It has been stated quite often that an adequate mathematical education of engineering students should enable them to apply mathematical modelling in solving an application problem of interest. Integrating mathematical application projects (or “case studies”) in the curriculum has been identified as one way to achieve this qualification. Several examples for such projects can be found in literature, and their potential for motivating and activating students has been demonstrated frequently…MAPS is based on the class-instance metaphor which has been adopted from object-oriented software development. As in that area, the essential idea behind this is re-usability. Projects (also called project instances) are grouped into so-called project classes. A project class extracts the essential aspects and abstracts from the specifics of a concrete project (instance)…