Technical Mathematics for Civil Engineering MATH 1421

Upon successful completion, the student will be able to:

• Demonstrate unit conversions involving the Imperial System and Systeme International (SI).
• Determine reasonable precision and accuracy in computations involving measured quantities in both scientific and non-scientific format.
• Calculate perimeters, areas, and volumes of common geometric shapes, as well as irregular areas and volumes. (Applications include area and volume of materials, lakes, reservoirs, areas under hydrographs.)
• Formulate and solve problems requiring basic concepts of trigonometry and vectors. (Applications to statics, surveying.)
• Algebraically rearrange relevant formulae including rectification of units.
• Formulate and solve equations and systems of equations up to three unknowns. (Applications include equilibrium, water flow, mixture problems.)
• Formulate and solve applied problems which require the concepts of ratio, proportion, and functional variation. (Applications to physics and hydrology, unit conversions, areas and volumes of similar figures, map scaling.)
• Formulate and solve problems using exponential functions, common logarithms (base 10) and natural logarithms (base e). (Applications to include soils, pH, radioactive decay.)
• Demonstrate calculator fluency for all relevant applications.

Effective as of Fall 2003