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Curriculum and Core Skills
Skill Sets Are Cumulative – Building And Expanding Each Term
Freshman Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• First Year Experience • Differentiation & integration
• Principles of Chemistry & Lab techniques
• Written and Oral • Solving optimization problems
Communications I • Solving problems in economics
& science: rates of change, work,
• Calculus I hydrostatic force
• Economic Principles • Matrix manipulations, systems of
• Calculus II linear equations, spectral theory
• Matrix Algebra of matrices and applications to
• Newtonian Mechanics & Lab modeling population dynamics
• Computer Programming • Java, MATLAB or Visual Basic,
data structures and algorithms
• Motion dynamics & obtaining
laboratory measurements
Sophomore Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Introduction to the Humanities • Partial differentiation and
• Multivariate Calculus multivariate integration techniques
• Abstract Algebra • Applications to multivariate and
• Introduction to Social Science constrained optimization problems
• Differential Equations & Laplace in economics and science: profit,
Transforms gravity, statics
• Electricity & Magnetism & Lab • First and higher order ordinary
• Mathematical Statistics I differential equations, applications
• Science Elective to physical systems, vibrations
Junior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
• Written & Oral Communication II • Solving ordinary differential equations
• Numerical Methods and Matrices • Solving partial differential equations
• Boundary Value Problems and boundary value problems
• Methods of Applied Mathematics with Fourier series, eigenfunction
• Intermediate Differential Equations expansions, and Fourier transforms.
• Advanced Humanities • Solving science/engineering
• Two Free Electives problems with advanced calculus,
dimensional analysis, asymptotic
Get In The Lab expansions, perturbation and
variational methods
Our state-of-the-art computing State-of-the-Art • Solving systems of linear and
labs are open 24/7 and are packed LAB nonlinear equations using matrix
with PCs and workstations that methods, Linearization and
can run the powerful math and FACILITIES perturbation methods.
statistical programs you’ll need.
And we’re famous for having some
of the country’s most sophisticated
engineering, math and science labs.
Senior Year SKILLS OBTAINED
In our Computer Mathematics Lab, • Vector functions, scalar and
you’ll design a better roller coaster, • Vector Analysis vector fields, and line and surface
analyze predator-prey systems, • Advanced Humanities
and calculate the best path of • Two Engineering Applications/CS integration
descent for an airplane. Sequence • Mathematical proofs and concepts
• Real Analysis I of limits and continuity
• Partial Differential Equations • Solving partial differential
Challenge Your Brain • Complex Variables equations, boundary and initial
• Senior Seminar value problems in cylindrical and
In the classroom you will exercise • Three Free Electives spherical coordinates.
your brain with challenging • Science Elective • Complex numbers and functions.
mathematical courses. Using integration in the complex
plane with basic results such as
the Cauchy-Goursat Theorem
