Course Title

Differential equations for engineers: An introductory course.

Course Tweet (200 characters or less)

Introduction to ordinary and partial differential equations, and vector differential and integral calculus, with applications to engineering (electrical engineering in particular).

Facilitators

I (Sidharth Jaggi) am an Assistant Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. This 12 week course (and so it would be a double course) would be run in parallel with an offline course (ERG2011A) I'll be teaching here at CUHK early Sept through late November. Possible co-facilitators would include the TAs and postdocs helping me teach that course.

Course Description (no more than 500 words)

Differential equations are one step up from the calculus that high-school students suffer through. Such equations pop up all over science and engineering -- thermodynamics, electrical circuits, electromagnetism, even biology! Solutions to these equations tell us about the behaviour of systems undergoing change.

In this course, the emphasis will be on introducing basic types of (mostly linear) differential equations relevant for basic engineering applications, and learning techniques to solve them. Primary motivating examples used through the course include RLC circuits, and Maxwell's equations.

Prerequisites

High-school differential and integral calculus is a prerequisite.

Audience

In universities such a course is typically taught in the first year to engineering students, as a core subject for future engineering courses.

Experience

I've taught this course three times before at CUHK.

Course wiki under construction here.