Teaching skills of engineering courses with strong mathematical elements for undergraduate students

The students majoring in engineering usually emphasize engineering practice and applications or product design. They relatively underestimate the study of theories and could have a hard time in taking some of professional courses with strong theoretical and mathematical elements. These courses may deal with abstruse scientific theory and principles, include a large number of concepts, definitions, parameters, theorems, and working mechanisms of systems, require systematic mathematical, and use complicated figures and tables to show involved analyses and results. We present several examples to illustrate the teaching method and use the achievements of students to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method.