Lead Faculty: Dr. Igor Y. Subbotin
Prerequisite
Placement evaluation.
Course Description
A course offering a thorough and useful beginning-level understanding of mathematical modeling. Examines diverse applications from the physical, biological, business, social and computer sciences. Teaches how to characterize data, select an appropriate model, solve for model parameters and use the model to predict. Discusses limitations, as well as the capabilities, of models as applied to understanding the real world and its inhabitants. Case studies are chosen to demonstrate useful applications. Graphing calculator is required.