Appled Mathematics: Three-Year B.Sc. Programs

Engineering/Applied Mathematics BESc and BSc Concurrent Program

Engineering students can upgrade their understanding and practical Applied Mathematical skills by enrolling in a concurrent program leading to a BESc degree in Engineering Science and a BSc degree in Applied Mathematics. The concurrent degree program takes one extra year and you end up with two undergraduate degrees.
We've set out a list of courses that are well suited to this Applied Mathematical enrichment. The regulations for the BSc state that students participating in this concurrent BSc must take five full courses in addition to the Engineering requirements and of these at least three must have mathematical content approved by the Department of Applied Mathematics. Normally, students in the program make a selection from this list that is best suited to their particular specialization in Engineering. Students in Electrical Engineering would likely include the complex variable course, Applied Mathematics 301a/b, while Mechanical Engineers would likely include courses in fluid mechanics.
Also, you would usually insert your added BSc courses in among your Engineering program courses rather than completing your BESc and then doing all Applied Mathematics courses in a fifth year. This way, you should find the extra math and computational skills can help you as you progress through your Engineering program. For example, when you have completed your numerical methods courses in second year you can take such courses as the Modelling and Simulation course or perhaps the course on Finite Element Methods. They might be very useful in a fourth year Engineering project.
We invite you to look over this list of course along with their descriptions in the calendar or on the web. Then come to the Department of Applied Mathematics - you can talk it over with a counsellor and decide what would be the best choices for you.

Differential Equations Courses Brief Description:

215a Ordinary Differential Equations

Applied Mathematics Courses Brief Description:

213b Advanced Linear Algebra (follows AM 025a/b)
303a/b Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations and Chaos
310a/b Modelling and Simulation
315a/b Partial Differential Equations
325a/b Optimization
351a/b Continuum Mechanics
420b Electromagnetic Theory
432a/b Viscous Fluids
465a/b C++ Programming
466a/b Finite Element Methods
475a/b Applied Computer Algebra
476a/b Numerical Partial Differential Equations

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