Recently, the results of the 2020 American College Students Mathematical Modeling Contest/Interdisciplinary Modeling Contest (MCM/ICM) were announced, and our students won 3 Honorable Mention awards.
Due to the impact of theCOVID-19 this year, the competition is divided into two stages, which would be held on February 13 to17 and March 5 to9, 2020. Each game lasts four days and four nights. Participating teams can choose a topic from six topics (continuous,discrete,data insights,operations research/network science,environmental science,policy) to complete model building, solving, test and analysis, and write an English paper. The contest has very high requirements on students' mathematical foundation, essay writing, computer simulation ability, application innovation ability, and English expression ability. The contest attracted a total of 20,948 teams and more than 60,000 players from more than 1,000 universities in more than 20 countries around the world.
The achievement of outstanding results in this contest is inseparable from the school’s continuous strengthening of the construction of teaching connotation, emphasis on undergraduate teaching, and on the cultivation of students’ innovative practical ability. The Academic Affairs Office, the Students Office and related departments provide strong support from many aspects. The organizers of this contest, Department of Fundamental Courses Teaching, hasmade full use of the advantages of mathematics, relying on the team of mathematical modeling teachers, and did a lot of preliminary work in the selection, training, and participation of the competition. During the COVID-19 prevention and control period, the students could not return to school and failed to carry out unified intensive training. In order to ensure the preparation quality of the participating students, the team teachers conducted training and answers to the participating students on the content of the competition through the online teaching mode, laying a good foundation for the excellent results this time, reflecting continuous improvement of the innovative thinking ability of our undergraduates in training.
