Engineering Mathematics I (Michalemas term 18/19) **NOT CURRENT ACADEMIC YEAR**

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Organization

The module runs for the first half (12 weeks) of the academic year and comprises of three lectures and one tutorial per week (total of 44 hours contact time).

Lectures take place Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays at 11:00 in McNeil theater.

Assessment

Weekly continuous assessment together with a team project contributes 20% towards the final grade with the end-of-year final written two-hour examination contributing 80%.

Projects

The final year group project is mandatory in order to have any grade in the continuous assessment (i.e without a project, one gets a 0 in CA no matter the tutorial grades).

The project should be about something that goes beyond what has been covered in class (just explaining something that has already been covered is not enough). Here you have some ideas. When you decide the title of your project make sure to let me know (to see if this is appropriate) by email. You should also attach a list of the members of the group.

Obviously you are encouraged to ask me any doubts or help with your project. I will try to provide some guidelines if you are interested in something in particular.

Tutorials assessment

Each week exercises will be available in this web page. You have to solve the exercises and hand them to your tutor before the tutorial starts. During the tutorials you are encouraged to ask any questions about the difficulties you found while doing the exercises.

The names of the tutors are:

Written exam

The final year written exam consists on 4-5 exercises that have to be solved without any calculator/books/tables.

Help with math questions

Of course, every student is encouraged to ask any question during or after the or directly in my office in the Lloyd building 2.20.

Textbook

There are several copies in the Hamilton library. There exist different versions and editions of the same book or parts of it, with different subtitles. Some of them only contain the first 8 or 9 chapters and are subtitled “Single Variable”. This is sufficient for the course I am teaching, but some material needed for the second semester (1E2) is missing. If you intend to buy the book probably is better that you make sure to buy an edition that covers both 1E1 and 1E2. There is also the possibility to buy an on-line version.

Lectures

A brief overview of what has been covered in each class.

Recap

Small sumaries of the important content of the course.

Tutorials

Ideas for projects

Here are some ideas for the projects

Some ideas for projects

Project Evaluation

Rules

Group List

A list of the project groups with their corresponding number

Model exams

An example of an exam. Solution