Engineering Needs and the College Mathematics Core

Isaac Greber
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Isaac Greber: Case Western Reserve University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

A chapter in The Future of College Mathematics, 1983, pp 71-74 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Considering the variety of mathematical needs of engineering students, it is remarkable that essentially a common core of mathematics courses required of engineering students in the first two years of college has existed for so many years. This core has consisted of differential and integral calculus, the elements of analytic geometry needed for the calculus, some aspects of multivariable and vector calculus, and ordinary differential equations. The validity of this core as an appropriate background for current needs of engineers is being increasingly questioned, spurred to some extent by the burgeoning variety of needs of engineers but more importantly by the rapidly increasing use of digital computers in virtually all phases of engineering analysis and design. I will discuss some features of the changes of the core in response to technological developments and digital computation. My discussion will be limited mostly to the programs I know personally, and my viewpoints will probably be conservative. I will generally not distinguish between whether the courses are taken in high school or in college.

Keywords: Boolean Algebra; Digital Computation; Discrete Formulation; Engineering Student; Integral Calculus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1983
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5510-9_6

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