Students' perceptions of mathematics in engineering courses from partners of MetaMath and MathGeAr projects

International audience; The overall objective of the two Tempus projects, MathGeAr and MetaMath, is toimprove the quality of STEM education in the South Caucasian region (Armenia andGeorgia) and Russia, by modernizing and improving the curricula and teachingmethods in the field of Mathematics.This article presents an analysis of the engineering students’ perceptions of theirmathematics courses. We present the methodology of data acquisition, the mainthemes that the study investigates and the preliminary results. We do validate the factthat each institution carries its own educational tradition which yields a very strongindicator of the origin of students.