Engineering applications in differential and integral calculus

The authors describe a two-year collaborative project between the Mathematics and the Engineering Departments. The collaboration effort involved enhancing the first year calculus courses with applied engineering and science projects. Two enhanced sections of the differential (first semester) and integral (second semester) calculus courses were offered during the duration of the project. The application projects involved both teamwork and individual work, and we required use of both programmable calculators and Matlab for these projects. Some projects involved use of real data often collected by the involved faculty. The paper lists all the projects, including where they fit within the course topics. Some selected projects are described in detail for both the differential and the integral calculus courses. The paper also summarizes the results of the survey questions given to the students in two of the courses followed by the authors own critique of the enhancement project.