The SCHOL Project
University of Maryland, College Park
Using mathematical software to enhance undergraduate
education.
The SCHOL project is a collaboration started originally by Kevin
Coombes, Brian Hunt,
Ron Lipsman, John Osborn and Garrett Stuck, all on the faculty of the
Mathematics Department at the University of Maryland, College
Park. The goal of SCHOL (an acronym formed with the first letter of the last names of the five originators) was to enhance the undergraduate math
curriculum by introducing mathematical software into undergraduate courses in a
meaningful way.
The project began in 1992 with the introduction of
Mathematica into the sophomore level Ordinary Differential Equations
course. Since then, the project has resulted in supplementary
textbooks, which enrich the sophomore ODE course by using one of
Mathematica, Maple, or MATLAB. These were published by John Wiley and Sons,
Inc. SCHOL has also produced general purpose Mathematica
and MATLAB primers, published by Cambridge University Press.
Drs. Coombes and Stuck have left the project and, sadly, Dr. Osborn has passed away. Also, Jonathan Rosenberg
has joined the group and Larry Lardy of Syracuse University and
Donald Outing of the US Military Academy have collaborated on the most recent
Maple (resp., Mathematica) versions of the ODE materials. A history
and more detailed description of the SCHOL project may be found in an
article published in a
special
edition of the Journal of Numerical Analysis, Industrial and
Applied Mathematics.
The CLeaR project, an offshoot of the SCHOL project, is a
collaboration among Kevin Coombes, Ron
Lipsman and Jonathan Rosenberg to introduce Mathematica into the
sophomore Multivariable Calculus course.
The newest project, an offshoot of CLeaR, is a forthcoming
book by Ron Lipsman and Jonathan Rosenberg on multivariable
calculus using MATLAB. This book is quite comprehensive
and includes all the standard multivariable calculus topics
as well as many applications to geometry and physics and
a discussion of numerical algorithms.
Detailed information about these projects is available by clicking
the links below or the icons on the left.
The SCHOL Project in Ordinary
Differential Equations
Multivariable Calculus with MATLAB
The CLeaR Project in
Multivariable Calculus
A Guide to MATLAB, for Beginners and Experienced
Users
The Mathematica Primer
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