Teaching Vita for Jeffrey S. Scroggs

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Teaching Approach

I am an applied mathematics teacher. This means I teach mathematics that can be applied to problems in science and engineering, so I am especially interested in providing a good education to the large numbers of engineering students on campus. This is reflected in my requests to teach the sections of calculus and the undergraduate numerical methods courses which contain primarily students from the science and engineering majors.
 
  • There is a close connection between my activities in research, guidance of graduate students at an individual level, classroom instruction of graduate courses, and classroom teaching of undergraduate courses. Since I focus on teaching applied mathematics, performing actual research which applies the mathematics helps me to understand the way some of the topics I teach are used. This allows me to draw on a wider variety of applications than are commonly used in the textbook, and to help maintain student interest by demonstrating the usefulness of the mathematics they are learning. When teaching topics that I do not currently apply, the research and interaction with graduate students still provides me with a healthy approach to the teaching of the material and generally how to solve problems with mathematics.

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