This is the second course in a series of courses that will equip students with skills that will help them solve problems encountered in major courses in the BS Civil Engineering program. In the first course of the series (CE 24), students learned about various analytical methods to solve commonly encountered engineering problems. In this course, students will learn about basic programming and numerical methods for solving mathematical problems and problems governed by differential equations.

The topics in this course will help students solve civil engineering problems - which are too complex to solve analytically - using numerical techniques. This course will also enable them to write computer programs that can assist in solving these problems. The general-purpose and procedural programming language, C, will be used in the lectures and exercises but the algorithms that students will learn can easily be used with any language of their choice in the future.