MUST Students Won Three Second Prizes at the“2014 Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling”

Earlier, the “2014 Contemporary Undergraduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling (CUMCM)” was held successfully, at which MUST students won three national awards of the second prize.

The CUMCM is a contest of elementary disciplines with the biggest number of participant higher institutions and is co-organized by the Ministry of Education and the China Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (CSIAM). In 2014, more than 70 000 students out of 25 347 teams from 1338 higher institutions from 33 provinces/municipalities/autonomous regions (including Hong Kong and Macao SAR) and the USA, Singapore and other regions, attended this year’s contest, of which 6% won the first prizes and the second prizes. Teams from the Macao SAR all together took back four second prizes.

The purpose of holding the contest is to enhance the motives of university students in studying mathematics, and applied mathematics, to improve the students’ overall capabilities in mathematical modeling and in problem-solving using computers, and to motivate university students to actively participate in extracurricular science and technology activities so as to broaden their knowledge span, cultivate their innovativeness and raise their awareness of team work spirit.

MUST has always performed well and brought home good prizes in this contest and stood out at the top particularly in the Hong Kong-Macao region. This would not have happened if it were not for the University’s attachment of emphasis to quality education of students, the Student Affairs Office’s tremendous support, and the hard work of the Mathematics team of the Department of General Education and the teachers of the Faculty of Information and Technology. The “MUST Mathematical Modeling Contest” project sponsored by the FDCT has in total enabled over 300 MUST students to participate in this event of science and technology practice, including many of the winners of national awards.

Currently, the fourth “MUST Mathematical Modeling Contest” is in progress; it is hoped that more students will join the contest so as to practice what they’ve learned, elevate their capabilities in practicing their expertise, and make better achievements.

2014 CUMCM Results of Macau University of Science and Technology (Second Prize of University Level)

Institution

Student 1

Student 2

Student 3

Advisor

Macau University of Science and Technology

WANG DANTONG

LIN CHUQIAN

ZHAN NIANJI

LIANG YONG

Macau University of Science and Technology

LIN SONGTUAN

LIN JIAXUAN

ZHAO RUI

CAI ZHANCHUAN

Macau University of Science and Technology

YU YIBO

WANG JIAN

ZHANG HAIMING

LIANG YONG