CSE 200, Day 1, Computational Science and Engineering

Hello and welcome to CSE 200. This class, Engineering And Scientific Computing is intended to teach fundamental tools and methods for the kinds of computations and simulations that you may need in your career as an engineer.

Administrative Notes

I'm Robert Pless, pless (.) cse.wustl.edu
TA's are:
- Dustin Griesemer, dustin.griesemer (.) sbcglobal.net
- Rouhollah Rahmani, rahmani (.) wustl.edu
- Nathaniel Roman, ngr1 (.) cec.wustl.edu
- Kate Achtien, kha1 (.) cec.wustl.edu
Our office hours will be posted online by tomorrow.

My goals for this class are to teach:

A little bit of how to program in matlab
A little bit of computer science (which is different than how to program)
A collection of tools for modeling and solving common numerical problems in that arise in Engineering.

This course is being taught without the expectation of any background in programming. If you think you "know how to program", trust me, there is still more to learn. And it would be good practice to think to yourself "how would I do this in another language?". (See the .m-file for the remainder of the lecture...)