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The primary goal of this program is to provide the appropriate mathematical knowledge and experience for persons seeking positions in industry. The program focuses on those mathematical theories and techniques which are applicable in the industrial setting. Emphasis is on the construction of mathematical models of industrial problems and on the mathematical tools that can be applied to such models. Courses required for the program are offered in the late afternoon or evening to accommodate the part-time student. Assistantships for students wishing to enroll full time are available on a competitive basis.
Admission is selective. All applicants who have received a baccalaureate from an accredited institution with a cumulative grade point average or 3.00 or more will be considered. The successful candidate's background should include courses in mutivariable calculus, linear algebra, and differential equations, and a knowledge of at least one high-level scientific programming language such as Pascal, Fortran, C, or PL/1. Students admitted without some aspects of the required background will be expected to remedy the deficiency before enrolling in many of the courses of the program.
To fulfill the requirements for a Master of Science degree in industrial applied mathematics a student must have successfully completed, with at least a 2.5 in each course and an overall grade point average of 3.00 or better, a 36-credit program consisting of:
The faculty of the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Oakland
University, in consultation with a group of individuals with strategic positions
in Michigan industry, have designed a Master of Science program to provide
appropriate mathematical knowledge and experience for persons who seek positions
in industry. Both the Department and the industrial advisers view this program
as a constructive step toward strengthening the technology of industry in
Southeast Michigan.
Students with an undergraduate degree in mathematics, engineering, statistics,
operations research, or the physical sciences will usually have met the
prerequisites for admission. Other students with similar backgrounds also
qualify. Students who do not satisfy all of the prerequisites may be admitted
on a conditional basis with the stipulation that specific prerequisites
be satisfied within a specified time interval. The courses in this program
include numerical methods, mathematical modeling of industrial problems,
statistics, mathematical programming, partial differential equations, computational
geometry, and numerical methods for partial differential equations. In addition
to the course work each candidate for the degree must conduct a research
project under the supervision of a faculty member. The project includes
both a written report and an oral presentation. The schedules of graduate
course offerings for 1994-95 and 1995-96, as printed in this brochure, gives
some indication of the breadth of courses (in mathematical sciences) available
each semester.
Courses in the program are generally offered in the late afternoon or evening to accommodate either full-time or part-time students. Some courses are taught every year, while other courses are taught on an alternating basis every other year. The schedule is designed to allow the full time student to complete the course work of the program in 4 semesters of full time work, with one additional semester for the research project. For part time students (one course per semester), the program can be completed in 9 semesters.