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Demonstration of Competence

40 assessment points will be based on your demonstration of competence (mastery) in the 8 of the following 14 areas. You must choose (1) and (2), and you can select no fewer than 2 from (3) to (7) and no fewer than 2 from (8) to (12).




You have to choose 1 & 2

(1) Publish in paper form or on the screen a text which includes attractive presentations of mathematical expressions and graphical material (consider using LATEX, HTML or Microsoft Word/Excel).

(2) Create a working program which includes looping, conditionals, arrays, subroutines and input/output to disk files in FORTRAN or C/C++.




Select no less than TWO from 3 to 7

(3) Create a working program which includes looping, conditionals, arrays, subroutines and input/output to disk files in FORTRAN or C/C++ (different from the language you selected in (2) above).

(4) Create a working script which includes looping, conditionals, arrays, subroutines and input/output to disk files in Perl or Python.

(5) Create a working program which includes looping, conditionals, arrays, subroutines and input/output to disk files in Mathematica or Matlab.

(6) Apply a graphing package to display an annotated figure of a data set generated by reading a disk file or from a mathematical expression.

(7) Download and successfully apply a software module/package from a remote web site.




Select no less than TWO from 8 to 12

(8) Formulate and solve a scientific problem requiring numerical differentiation.

(9) Formulate and solve a scientific problem requiring matrix operations.

(10) Formulate and solve a scientific problem requiring statistical analysis (curve fitting or sample statistics).

(11) Formulate and solve a scientific problem requiring random number/ Monte Carlo methods.

(12) Formulate and solve a scientific problem requiring numerical simulation.




Additional Options

(13) Formulate and solve a scientific problem requiring numerical integration.

(14) Formulate and solve a scientific problem requiring solution of non-linear equations.


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Daniel Mitchell
1999-03-03