Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Mission
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The mission of the undergraduate program in Mathematics
and Statistics is to provide a broadly based program in
undergraduate level mathematics and statistics which will
prepare students either for graduate study in mathematics
and statistics, or for mathematics-statistics related
employment in academic, industrial, or governmental
positions.
The mission of the MS program in Mathematics is to provide
a broadly based program in graduate level mathematics and
statistics which will prepare students either for doctoral study
in mathematics and statistics, or for mathematics-statistics
related employment in academic, industrial or governmental
positions.
The mission of the PhD program in Applied Mathematics is to
provide a high quality doctoral program in applied
mathematics that will prepare students as research
mathematicians for employment in either academic,
industrial, or governmental positions.
Departmental Staffing
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Professors: 14
Associate Professors: 6
Assistant Professors: 4
Instructors: 9
Unclassified Professionals: 3
Classified Personnel: 3
TEACHING
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Teaching is done by faculty, GTA’s and sometimes, a few lecturers.
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We produce about 7% of WSU credit hours production (our
budget is about 2.4% of WSU GU budget).
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Our contribution to the General Education Program: two Basic Skills
courses, three Introductory level courses, five Further Studies courses
and one Issues and Perspectives course.
Our contribution to Other WSU Programs : the department is responsible
for providing instruction for the calculus sequence and differential
equations which are required for all engineering majors; Calculus I,
Calculus II, CS 321, and CS 322 which are required for all computer
science majors; and Stat 370 which is required for all education majors,
nursing majors, and is accepted by the departments of sociology,
psychology, and the Barton School of Business for their required
statistics course. When requested the department offers Masters or PhD
level courses for graduate students in engineering and sciences. The
department offers courses in general education for teacher education,
elementary and secondary teacher licensure programs.
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Fairmount College of Liberal Arts and
Sciences
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
MAJORS OFFERED
Undergraduate Programs
• The department offers the following degrees: BA in Mathematics, BS in
Mathematics, BS in Mathematics with emphasis in statistics, and BS in
Mathematics with emphasis in computing.
Graduate Programs
• The department offers the following graduate degrees: MS in
Mathematics, PhD in Applied Mathematics with emphasis in partial
differential equations, PhD in Applied Mathematics with emphasis in
probability and statistics, and PhD in Applied Mathematics with
emphasis in computational mathematics.
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Enrollment (2005 data). Undergraduate majors: 53. Graduate majors:
35.
RESULTS
• Our undergraduate majors find success in a
broad variety of careers: Business (28%),
Engineering (17%), Research and Academia
(15%), Computing (14%), Statistics (8%),
Education (4%) and Other (14%). In the Other
category are included areas such as law,
medicine, art, self-employment, etc.
• MS graduates: PhD programs (30%), Education
(40%), Industry and Other (30%).
• PhD graduates : Academia (65%), Industry
(35%).
FACILITIES
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We have one classroom equipped with
computers (32 seats)
The department operates the Math Lab
which offers free tutoring for students
taking courses from Arithmetic through
Calculus I and Elementary Statistics.
RESEARCH
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21 faculty and our graduate students are involved in
active research.
Research in being done in a number of areas
(traditional: Complex Analysis, PDE, Differential
Geometry, Math Physics, etc.; applied: Tomography,
Fluid Mechanics, Numerical Analysis, Survival
Analysis, Financial Mathematics, Statistics, etc.).
Faculty regularly apply for grant support to various
agencies: NSF, Dept. of Defense, Dept. of Energy, Air
Force, FAA, etc.
We have a constantly working Lecture Series in the
Mathematical Sciences (on Fridays) where
accomplished mathematicians from all over the world
are invited to speak.
RESEARCH
Results:
2005 Faculty Publications:
• Books: 1
• Journal Articles: 27
• Book Reviews: 8
• Published Conference Proceedings: 4
FY ’05 External Funding: $220,535
SERVICE
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Professional service to granting
agencies, working on editorial boards of
journals, reviewing papers for journals,
arranging conferences, etc.
Working (in collaboration with College of
Education) with secondary school
teachers on a constant basis.
Collaboration with industry. Example:
Koch Co. internship.
The bottom line is
The Department of
Mathematics & Statistics is
very cost effective and highly
prestigious part of the overall
teaching and research
enterprise in WSU
WSU AWARDS
For faculty there are yearly WSU awards:
Excellence in Research Award
Young Faculty Scholar Award
Excellence in Teaching Award
President’s Award for Distinguished Service
• In the past five years six of our faculty
received these awards
• This year one of our faculty was awarded
the title of Distinguished Professor.