Tutorial software for engineering mathematics

An experimental tutorial mathematics program is nearing completion which is designed to provide interactive workstation based tutorial support in several areas of engineering mathematics. The objectives of the software are to provide review and exploration experiences which are suitable for classroom presentation, but also can be tailored to the needs of individual students. If this tutorial software approach is successful, it will allow upper division courses in engineering and science to progress more efficiently. It will also help eliminate some barriers to student progress into the upper division due to gaps in academic experience. This type of software is complementary to the demonstrations which can be accomplished with batch files and notebooks for widely used mathematics toolkits such as MatLab and Mathematica. However, it is not based on those software products, and no license to use those products is needed to use this tutorial. This approach is also complementary to textbook presentations since it provides the student with the opportunity to experiment with concepts of mathematics, but it does not present the formal theoretical developments in the depth expected in textbooks.