Amount of math covered in a typical undergraduate engineering program?

[Superman1271]

Hi, I've just completed my first year in biomedical engineering, and I was wandering what is the amount of math covered in a typical undergraduate engineering program?

 

[ZenOne]

All of calculus (including ODE's, PDE's, Fourier and Laplace Transforms); also, it usually includes Numerical Methods and basic Statistics. In EE they usually do Discrete Math as well.

 

[Chunkysalsa]

As an EE I took math classes on Calculus (I-III), ODE, Prob/Stat, and a bit of numerical methods (taught by engineer).

In actual engineering classes I've learned bits and pieces of transforms (laplace, fourier, Z), linear algebra, vector analysis. Hard to remember what stuff i learned where since I'm also a math major.

 

[chill_factor]

Depends on what engineering and what school.

At my UG school BMEs and ChemEs take just Calc 1-4 (quarter system), Linear Algebra and ODEs. 6 math classes total, 2 years of continuous math. Not that math intensive. My school actually has an ABET accredited BME program which is pretty rare.

All engineers also take a programming class that teaches you how to use Matlab and Mathematica.

 

[Windowmaker]

Math for Engineers is more applied and almost no proofs.

 

[Barre]

In computer engineering I did the standard single/multivariable calculus sequence, linear algebra, linear analysis, statistics and probability, numerical analysis and discrete mathematics. All of those were applied/computational except for discrete mathematics which also served as an introduction to proofs and algebra.

 

[Norfonz]

For biomedical engineering, you will most likely take the following:

Single variable calc, multivariable calc, ODE, statistics

Can't think of any others. The CS/EE guys generally take linear algebra as well.