Upon completion of the course, students should have:

• solid understanding of the basic calculus concepts such as functions, limits, continuity, derivatives and integration
• basic understanding of the fundamental linear algebra concepts like system of linear equations,  matrices, spaces, vectors, least squares solution, Eigenvalues/Eigenvectors of matrices, quadratic optimization and its iterative solution methods
• basic knowledge of differential equations
• hands on practice with the analytic manipulation of basic mathematical expressions and the solution of basic calculus, linear algebra and differential equation related problems
• experience to implement all the numerical techniques studied using MATLAB scientific software