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Tue and Thr 10:30AM-11:50AM @ Scaife Hall 125

Course Goals

The goal of this course is for you to learn the concepts of numerical methods for engineers and how to implement them on the computer. Numerical methods are extremely powerful problem-solving tools, especially when we need to handle large systems of equations, nonlinearities, and complicated geometries, which are not uncommon in real world engineering. The topics covered in this course include: (1) roots of equations, (2) linear algebraic equations, (3) optimization, (4) curve fitting, (5) numerical differentiation and integration, (6) ordinary differential equations, and (7) partial differential equations.

Teaching Staff

Professor Kenji Shimada (Instructor) Office: 314 Scaife Hall, Phone: 8-3614 Email: shimada@cmu.edu Office Hours: by email appointment
Arbtip (Aom) Dheeravongkit (Teaching Assistant) Office: B127 Hamerschlog Hall, Phone: 8-6091 Email: arbtip@andrew.cmu.edu Office/Cluster Hours: Wed 6:30-9:00pm
Joshua Rosen (Grader/Tutor) Email: jsrosen@andrew.cmu.edu Cluster Hours: Tue 6:30-9:00pm
Dave Wynne (Grader/Tutor) Email: dwynne@andrew.cmu.edu Cluster Hours: Wed 6:30-9:00pm
Chanikarn (Minto) Benjavitvilai (Grader/Tutor) Email: cbenjavi@andrew.cmu.edu Cluster Hours: Tue 6:30-9:00pm
Juliana Shanmei Lim (Grader/Tutor) Email: jsl1@andrew.cmu.edu Cluster Hours: Thr 9:30-10:30pm

Class B-Board

To post a message to class b-board:
bb+academic.mech-e.24-311@andrew.cmu.edu

Email Lists

To send a message to all the teaching staff
(use this when you ask a technical question):
     +dist+~shimada/dlists/nm03_ta@andrew.cmu.edu
To send a message to all the students in class (and b-board)
(this is mainly for teaching staff use only)
     +dist+~shimada/dlists/nm03@andrew.cmu.edu
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