Materials and math: teaching MSE students the mathematical tools they need to succeed

18/02/2024 33 min Temporada 1 Episodio 13
Materials and math: teaching MSE students the mathematical tools they need to succeed

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Tim and Steve talk about math education at the college level, what engineering students are and are not getting from their math courses, and the math skills MSE students need to have to be successful.  We also tease the creation of a new sophomore course at Michigan - Math Methods for MSE!  Also a little nerding out about math topics from different levels of infinity to functions as bases of vector spaces.You can find the YouTube video (audio only) here:https://youtu.be/w1zPN1WBB5E?si=6Q07_R-uolFwZIr9This episode is sponsored by the University of Michigan Materials Science and Engineering department (https://mse.engin.umich.edu).