College of Engineering & Technology

Civil & Environmental/Chemical Engineering Program

ENGR6924: Computer Based Tools for Engineers (3 s.h.)

Summer, 2008



Session No. 1

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