LINES AND PROCEDURES FOR TEACHING MATHEMATICS FOR ENGINEERING STUDENTS

Three years ago, the European Bologna Plan, for an international, broad, practical and flexible education, was introduced in the E.T.S. Agronomics Engineering of Madrid (E.T.S. I. A.), although it has not still overcome the results of previous plans. This work is especially trying to improve the application of this Plan for first course mathematics subjects in that School. In new regulations teaching of detailed contents was replaced by requirements of getting the students to acquire skills, but logically disciplines aren't considered irrelevant, and it is demanded that the student knows and learns their applicability, and acquires or improves specific collateral skills. New legislation orders abandonment of usual didactic classroom action purely concentrated on transmitting the knowledge, the teacher has traditionally been a mediator between students and knowledge. Therefore it has emerged a new style of entrepreneurship education. This needs to be updated based on acquiring professional and academic skills to give greater opportunities of starting earlier their professional work to students. It needs to be broader, including some attitudes and aspects of professional career, and in such way the concept of higher education can be returned/transformed/changed to an original "Holistic Learning", as focusing on to the whole learning procedure and not on its parts. Our students have often given up on passing our two first course subjects early, and on assisting at lectures. Therefore, they need an appropriate planning of teaching and learning. In this work, authors will prove that selection of the contents of disciplines is less important than the choice of, both together, a suitable way of approaching them, and of a manner for training students for their practical use. At the present, authors are developing a work method to achieve better results, by making more useful or profitable the fixed timetables into/out classroom. In new kinds of assessment, teachers will reward every effort of student, to motivate and encourage students to work usefully every discipline, enjoying it. They will need to use their memory, understanding, creativity.