Would you like to have audiovisual educational resources that address materials engineering challenges in connection with mathematics? What if the resources were created by the university students themselves, accompanied by professionals from both disciplines?

The EELISA MATMATH Challenge is a pilot learning experience based on challenges within the framework of the Degree in Materials Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. The aim is for students to develop learning competences and transversal skills while tackling a real problem.

The EELISA MATMATH challenge is promoted by the EELISA SSERIES Community. It is developed in collaboration with the EELISA Advanced Materials for a Sustainable Future Community.

The challenge here is to advance interdisciplinary university education, generating audiovisual educational resources that connect materials engineering with mathematics and, in general, with basic science, within the framework of sustainability.

This global challenge is broken down into a series of local challenges. In each challenge, materials engineering professionals formulate a question related to sustainable materials and a team of students has to be able to explain the scientific keys to the problem in a short video.

The videos, selected for their quality, are viewed at an event in the presence of the external agents who proposed the challenges and will form a video library as a resource for training in materials engineering and other STEM degrees, once the appropriate permissions have been obtained.

• The proposal “MATMATH: MATeriales y MAT(H)emáticas” was selected in the “CALL FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF EELISA PILOT EXPERIENCES OF CHALLENGE-BASED LEARNING IN COURSES OF THE OFFICIAL DEGREES OF THE UNIVERSIDAD POLITÉCNICA DE MADRID” for the academic year 2023-2024.

The Call is financed by a grant from the Ministry of Universities, by virtue of the “Royal Decree 1059/2021, of 30 November, which regulates the direct award of various grants to universities participating in the project “European Universities” of the European Commission”, of which the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid is a beneficiary. The European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA), with ID 101004081, is an alliance of European Universities, co-funded by the European Commission within the Call for Proposals “Erasmus+ European Universities / 2020 – EAC/A02/2019”, and with a period of execution 01/11/2020 – 31/10/2023. EELISA has also been selected in the Call for Proposals Erasmus+ ERASMUS-EDU-2023-EUR-UNIV-1, with ID 101124676, and with a period of execution 01/11/2023 – 31/10/2027.