You may have earned academic college course credit by scoring well on Advanced Placement (AP) and/or International Baccalaureate (IB) examinations, or by receiving credit at a college or university ...

Students focus on engineering problem solving. They learn the design process, with an emphasis on graphics and documentation. A student’s mathematics placement is determined by the Department of ...

For decades, high-achieving high school students have been told the surest way to impress selective colleges is to take calculus. In a recent national survey of 133 admissions officers, 74% said the ...

If you are a new engineering first-year student starting in the fall semester, you will most likely be pre-enrolled in an Applied Math (APPM) pre-calculus or calculus course based on patterns of prior ...

About 10 years ago, Alan Garfinkel, a professor in the life sciences department at the University of California, Los Angeles, got a call. It was from his dean, who said that the department had ...

I took AP calculus in high school, graduated from Georgia Tech, taught high-school math and finally settled in as an analyst at a major airline. I couldn’t agree more with James Markarian questioning ...

To graduate in four years, you need to be enrolled in calculus (Math 181) the fall of your freshman year. You must be enrolled in calculus (Math 181) before you can declare a specific engineering ...

The Applied Mathematics Program is open to those students who have earned a B.S. degree in engineering, science, or mathematics, provided that the student has completed a program in undergraduate ...

Experts are questioning the relevance of pushing all college-bound students to take calculus, arguing that the “narrow pathway toward calculus … fails to serve most students.” Credit: Erika Rich for ...