Mathematics in Civil Engineering

Full-time - II cycle - Civil Engineering, summer semester, 20h of lectures with 10h of computer laboratory classes
updated for 2020/2021

Lectures (on-line), starting from the SECOND week of the semester (08.03.2021) (20 hours)

presence is not obligatory
pre-recorded lectures will be delivered as YouTube movies, links will appear at the time of lectures
lecturer: DSc PhD Eng Sławomir Milewski, professor of CUT, mail address: slawek@L5.pk.edu.pl, Webex
THE FIRST BLOCK - numerical methods (10 hours)
THE SECOND BLOCK - engineering statistics (10 hours)
important links:

Computer laboratory classes (numerical methods) (on-line), starting from the SECOND week of the semester (08.03.2021) (10 hours)

mandatory presence
Link for my personal room on Webex
software: Matlab (available student version, mail address at CUT domain required) or Octave (free software)

Activation of CUT mail address using data from Virtual Dean Office

Account on Mathworks for download of Matlab
IMPORTANT: While downloading and installing Matlab, select "Symbolic" toolbox - it will be required later on.

Octave download page

contents:

lab. #1: Introduction to / recap of Matlab/Octave (2h)
- Script for Matlab / Octave
- Exercises in Matlab / Octave
lab. #2: exercises in approximation (2h)
lab. #3: project #1 on approximation (2h)
lab. #4: project #2: Fourier analysis in engineering problems (2h)
lab. #5: exercises in statistics (2h)

The final grade

The final grade is the weighted average grade from the two lab. projects and the grade from the lecture test, evaluated on the basis of the following formula
0.49(Project #1 + Project #2)/2 + 0.51Lectures
Obviously, all component grades have to be positive.