SHOU Students Making New Achievements in 2018 Mathematical Contest in Modeling /Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM)

The release date:2018-04-26view:1921Set

Recently, 2018 Mathematical Contest inModeling /Interdisciplinary Contest in Modeling (MCM/ICM) has announced thegrades, and SHOU students have won one Honorable Mention Award and twoSuccessful Participant Awards.

MCM/ICM is an internal mathematical contestin modeling sponsored by the Consortium for Mathematics and Its Application(COMAP); as the earliest ancestor of all kinds of mathematical contests inmodeling, it enjoys worldwide reputation. Since1985, it has been successfullyheld for 34 consecutive years. It is also one of the discipline contests withthe widest international influence for college students, and has beenincorporated into the system of innovative talent training and evaluation atcolleges and universities in China. According to reports, the contest of thisyear enrolled a total of 20,602 teams and more than 60,000 undergraduatestudents from 19 countries and regions, including the US, China (mainlandChina, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan), the UK, France, Japan, Canada, etc. SHOUsent nine students (divided into three teams) to the contest. Nine students camefrom the AIEN Institute, the College of Marine Science, the College ofInformation Technology and the College of Engineering Science and Technology.They were instructed by Liu Taigang and Qin Yufang, both teachers from theDepartment of Mathematics and Computer Science, the College of Information Technology. The contest was held during the winter holidays (prettyclose to the Chinese Spring Festival). However, under the substantial supportof related departments of SHOU, difficulties faced by students in terms ofaccommodation, laboratory and so forth were successfully overcome. In thefour-day contest, our participants carefully analyzed the actual problemsinvolved in the contest, and completed all the work from mathematical modeling,through programming, solution and verification, to all-English paper writing.This contest not only fully embodied the hard-working and teamwork spirits ofour students, but also effectively enhanced their mathematical modeling andinnovative practice abilities.

In recent years, the College of InformationTechnology has been deepening the teaching reform of mathematical modelingcurriculum group, having attached great importance to the cultivation ofapplied innovative talents, completed the teaching reform from teacher-orientedapproach to student-oriented approach, changed teaching contents from knowledgetransfer to ability cultivation, and extended the teaching mode from “classroomteaching” to “extracurricular teaching”; through advocating actual combattraining and promoting learning in scientific and technological contests. Ithas cultivated the applied innovation spirit and practical abilities ofstudents. The outstanding achievements made by our participants in this contestreflect the gradual steady improvement of the modeling ability of SHOUstudents, and suggest that they are making a figure on the stage ofinternational contests.


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