College of Engineering & Technology
Civil & Environmental/Chemical Engineering Program
ENGR6924: Computer Based Tools for Engineers (3 s.h.)
Summer, 2008
Welcome to ENGR6924: Computer Based Tools for Engineers
You will find the course outline at the web address
http://www.eng.ysu.edu/~jalam/engr6924summer08/engr6924syllabusSummer08.doc
The course content website address is http://www.eng.ysu.edu/~jalam/engr6924summer08/
You will also receive a request through your e-mail to join Engineering Computing network at
http://engineeringcomputing.ning.com/
Please familiarize yourself with the use of the network. Complete your profile on the network including a picture of yours.
Please post your questions and discussions in the appropriate forum section of that network. You will find forum topics that will relate to the
sessions on the content website. Also, avoid e-mail for the purpose of asking questions related to the course topics.
Please install the following software on your computer.
1. MAXIMA: Symbolic math package
http://maxima.sourceforge.net/index.shtml
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=4933&package_id=4960&release_id=593688 (download site)
Also the Maxima web site provides documentation on the program.
2. SCILAB: Numerical analysis package
http://www.scilab.org/
http://www.scilab.org/download/4.1.2/scilab-4.1.2.exe