Industrial Mathematics and Maritime Business: Emerging Trends and Challenges
Keywords:
Mathematics curriculum, Maritime, MET industry, Use of mathematicsAbstract
This work reviews the relevance of mathematics in the changing trends of
Maritime Business and Education. The paper also discusses the various
occupational practices where maritime education and training practitioners
encounter the use and application of mathematics. Maritime activities occupy
more than three-quarters of the world's space and provide an occupational
industry (Nahmias, 2005). Of late, ship construction and usage include space
management onboard the vessels; the Ports have brought a dependency on
mathematical principles or models such as time series, linear programming, and
queuing theories. These models, however, hardly come as direct mathematics but
embed in technology built on the advancement of mathematics. Moreover, it also
identifies specific areas of mathematics applicable to Maritime Business,
Education, and Training practitioners in their day-to-day activities. The paper
recommends the curriculum considerations on issues bordering on mathematics
teaching and learning for Maritime Business, Education, and Training.
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