Case Study: Georgia Institute of Technology enables global remote teaching with Maplesoft Maple

Georgia Institute of Technology teaches global PDE classes across the world with Maplesoft

The customer, Georgia Institute of Technology, faced the challenge of effectively teaching a remote Partial Differential Equations class to globally dispersed graduate engineering students. Professor Emeritus Jim Herod needed an efficient way to communicate lectures, distribute assignments, and receive reports from students in diverse and often remote locations, including military personnel on active duty. The vendor Maplesoft provided its Maple software as an e-learning and problem-solving platform.

Maplesoft's Maple provided a versatile solution as an intuitive distance learning tool, enabling the creation of interactive technical worksheets for curriculum and homework. It allowed students, even those on a submarine, to download materials and submit work remotely. The results included a lowered learning curve and the ability to teach customized, out-of-the-box problems not found in textbooks, from modeling a cheesecake recipe to analyzing real-world scientific data, enhancing student engagement and problem-solving skills.

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