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This work aims to help students to take a modern approach to practical engineering mathematical techniques, embracing modern technology - hand-held machines, spreadsheets, symbol manipulators. With so much technological power available, the emphasis broadens from mechanics of solution to include specifying the problem, asking if the answer is appropriate and convincing oneself and others of this. The book encourages a range of solution approaches using SONG (Symbolic, Oral, Numerical and Graphical), reflecting the Harvard Reform Calculus movement. This addresses the richness of the ideas, deppening understanding and allowing confirmation of solutions. Development of key skills is integrated: communication both written and oral, IT use, problem solving and modelling. The structure should help students become more conscious of and responsible for their own learning, for example using self-assessment.

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Neil Challis was born in Cambridge, UK. He studied mathematics at the University of Bristol and subsequently worked for some years as a mathematician in the British Gas Engineering Research Station at Killingworth. Since 1977, he has worked in the Mathematics Group, Sheffield Hallam University, UK and is currently head of that group. He obtained a PhD in mathematics from the University of Sheffield in 1988 and has taught mathematics to a wide variety of students, across the spectrum from first year engineers and other non-mathematicians who need access to mathematical ideas, techniques and thinking, to final year single honours mathematics students. Harry Gretton was born in Leicester, UK. He studied mathematics at the University of Sheffield, obtaining his PhD from there in 1970. He has taught mathematics sciences since then, both at Sheffield University and Sheffield Hallam University, and has been a tutor with the Open University since it was conceived. He has taught many varied students on many varied mathematically-related courses. In recent years he has developed a particular interest in the impact of technology on the way mathematics is taught, practiced and assessed.

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