Catalog Course Description

The course emphasizes elementary modeling, numerical methods & their implementation on physical problems motivated by phenomena that students are likely to encounter in their careers, involving biomechanics, heat-transfer, structural analysis, control theory, fluid-flow, electrical conduction, diffusion, etc. This will help students develop intuition about the strengths and weaknesses of a variety of modeling & numerical methods, as well as develop intuition about modeling physical systems & strengths and weaknesses of a variety of numerical methods, including: Discretization of differential equations, Methods for solving nonlinear systems, Gradient-based methods and machine learning algorithms for optimization, stats & quantification

Spring Term

3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 6 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.

Fall Term

3 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 6 hours of Outside Work Hours per week.