Quality Improvement of Engineering Mathematics:A Case Study at Shaqra University

In this work, a performance enhancement case study that targets engineering mathematics courses at College of Engineering (COE) at Shaqra University (SU) is designed, analyzed and evaluated. A new academic plan for the targeted mathematics courses is proposed and compared with the old one. Three different methodologies are designed to evaluate the case study namely as: 1) methodology to design a student questionnaire to evaluate the new academic plan, 2) methodology to measure (i.e. through a second Questionnaire) the degree of utilization of information technology in learning mathematics and 3) A final questionnaire is carried by faculty members. Analyzing and evaluating the three questionnaire outcomes indicated a high rate of satisfaction among students., the questionnaire constructed by faculty members has showed 87% satisfaction about the proposed methodologies compared to 70% in the old plan. An improvement of 13.35% using MATHEMATICA software and 7.95% using MATLAB software program was addressed as an indication of improvement in learning mathematics using software programs.