25 Problems for STEM Education introduces a new and emerging course for undergraduate STEM programs called Physical-Mathematical Informatics. This course corresponds with the new direction in education called STE(A)M (Science, Technology, Engineering, [Art] and Mathematics). The book focuses on undergraduate university students (and high school students), as well as the teachers of mathematics, physics, chemistry and other disciplines such as the humanities. This book is suitable for readers who have a basic understanding of mathematics and math software.

Features

• Contains 32 interesting problems (studies) and new and unique methods of solving these physical and mathematical problems using a computer as well as new methods of teaching mathematics and physics
• Suitable for students in advanced high school courses and undergraduates, as well as for students studying Mathematical Education at the Master's or PhD level
• One of the only books that attempts to bring together ST(E)AM techniques, computational mathematics and informatics in a single, unified format

About the Author

Valery Ochkov is Professor at Moscow Power Engineering Institute (Technical University - MPEI - www.mpei.ru) in the Department of Theoretical Basics of Thermal Engineering (TOT), founder and general manager of Trieru (www.trie.ru), an engineering consulting firm that develops simulators and analytical software for the power industry. He also works at Joint Institute for High Temperatures (www.jiht.ru) of the Russian Academy of Sciences and at Moscow High School at MPEI. He is a member of the working group on thermodynamics of the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam (IAPWS) and PTC Mathcad Community (https://community.ptc.com).

He has authored more than 25 books in Russian and English and numerous journal articles on the use of math software for solving the problems in thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer and fluid dynamics. Professor Ochkov is one of the creators of WaterSteamPro (TM), an application for simulating thermophysical properties of water and steam and also a co-creator of web-calculations for the Elsevier/Knovel website.

Reviews

". . . the book can serve as a nice manual on the Mathcad software, and it can be very useful to teachers and lecturers looking for new examples to enrich their presentations, which is especially important nowadays with necessity to employ the remote teaching and distance learning."
- Technometrics, Volume 62, 2020 - Issue 4

"Ochkov (Moscow Power Engineering Institute) packs a lot of information into a single book. The author's purpose is to present 32 "content rich" problems-or studies, as he refers to them-for students to solve. Each study includes areas of mathematics, physics, IT, art, and even creating a website. The narrative part of each study reads well, though a few may be overly long. The main software to be used is Mathcad, with copious examples provided in each study. Some studies are relatively short and fairly accessible, appropriate for use with lower-division (or even advanced high school) students, while others are definitely more advanced and complex. The primary reason to use this book is that it offers a range of problems, providing options that can be tailored to work for a particular class or group situation. This reader applauds the approach of presenting science as a system of interconnected information shared across many disciplines. True, this is not the current approach adopted in many traditional curricula. Yet, instructors could use this book as source material to create tailored, content-rich assignments. This reader can also envision assigning some of the problems to be undertaken in a group setting followed by presentations to the class."
- Choice Review, D. B. Mason, Albright College

Book Information
ISBN 9780367345259
Author Valery Ochkov
Format Hardback
Page Count 374
Imprint Chapman & Hall/CRC
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 890g