Instructor: Stephen Brill
Office: MB (Mathematics Building) 218-A
Phone: (208) 426-3122
Fax: (208) 426-1356
Email: sbrill@boisestate.edu
Class meetings: 0900 to 1015, Wednesday and Friday on room MB 126.
Textbook: Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Kreyszig, chapters 11, 12, 13, 17, and 5.
Computer: All students have access to the computer lab in MB 136, where Maple, Matlab, etc. are available. You should be able to login using your myBoiseState credentials. Here are some programs you might find to be useful.
Office hours: Mondays and Wednesdays, 1330-1430. Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1200-1300. Other times by appointment.
Academic Honesty and appropriate behavior: All students are expected to be familiar with and adhere to the policies and standards given in the BSU Student Code of Conduct.
Cell phones, paging devices, etc.: Please turn off or silence your devices during class time.
Late work and/or extensions: If you seek an extension on an assignment and the request occurs after the due date or time, your request will be summarily denied (except in the most extraordinary circumstances). Such requests that occur before the due date and time will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Contesting grades: If you think I have graded you unfairly on a particular assignment, you must bring this to my attention within a week from the time that the assignment was returned to the class. After a week I will not consider any requests to review and possibly change my grading.
Learning outcomes: At the end of the semester, the student will be able to
solve problems concerning the heat, wave, and Laplace's partial differential equations.
solve problems in the discipline of complex variables, including conformal mapping.
solve ordinary differential equations using the power series method.
Grading policy:
Your grade will be determined by your performance in three areas:
Homework (50%).
Take-home Midterm Exam (20%) -- due 14 October at 0900
Take-home Final Exam (30%) -- due 14 December at 1130
Your grade will be computed via the following algorithm. Let x be the number of points accumulated throughout the semester (between 0 and 100):
A+: x > 97
A: 93 < x < 97
A-: 90 < x < 93
B+: 87 < x < 90
B: 83 < x < 87
B-: 80 < x < 83
C+: 77 < x < 80
C: 73 < x < 77
C-: 70 < x < 73
D: 60 < x < 70
F: x < 60
This page was most recently updated on 8 December 2022.