CE2020

The course teaches the application of engineering computational software to address problems of interest in civil eng. Software to be used in the course: Mathcad, Excel, Matlab, VBA for Excel, Surfer, Grapher & Didger. Problems to be addressed are civil eng applications that involve vector operations, matrix operations, solution of linear and non-linear equations, differentiation, integration, systems of simultaneous linear and non-linear equations, curve fitting, linear and non-linear regression analysis, optimization analysis, basic statistics and probability, random numbers and Monte Carlo analysis and others. These applied mathematical problems will be solved mostly using built-in numerical functions in the software above. For some problems, programming concepts will be covered using Mathcad, Matlab and VBA in Excel. Others topics to be covered include graphing with Grapher and digitizing with Didger and spatial interpolation analysis using Surfer. This course may have a course fee.

pre-req: CE 1025, and PHYS 2013 (or 2017), and MATH 1297 (or 1597) (previous or concurrent MATH only); or instructor consent

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