Cal Poly Statistics Student Opportunities
Monday, July 20, 2020
Student Data Analysis Position at Cal Poly
Dr. Anurag Pande is a transportation engineering professor at Cal Poly and uses statistical analysis in his teaching and research regularly. If you would be interested in helping him with research/instruction using your R skills please reach out to him by email:
apande@calpoly.edu at your earliest convenience.
The work is paid in the range of $15-$18 per hour and there would be 5 to 10 hours of work every week. It will be data analysis/processing tasks and possibly teaching some engineering students to do it as well.
When responding to Dr. Pande, please let him know of your weekly availability for the following week.
Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Upcoming Competition: Mathematical Contest in Modeling
There's an international competition in mathematical modeling held every year over 4 days in January or February called the Mathematical Contest in Modeling (or MCM) This contest is open to any undergraduate student enrolled at Cal Poly (full or part-time) and is appropriate for students at any level: first-year students to those about to graduate. It is open to any major as well - it can be a competitive advantage in the MCM to have an interdisciplinary team.
We offer a support 2 unit support course, Math 371, to coach the teams competing the MCM. This year, Math 371 will be offered in the Fall quarter (FQ20), MW 6-7pm.
You do not need to enroll in Math 371 to compete in the MCM, but it's strongly recommended that you do -- epsecially if you haven't not competed in the MCM before. Details about the MCM competition and the Math 371 course are given below. If you are interested in the competition, please contact me and/or enroll in Math 371.
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The MCM is an international competition, held over 4 days, where teams of three undergraduates construct mathematical models to investigate and present solutions for real world problems. Teams choose one of three problems posted online at the start of the contest and submit a detail report of their model and solution within 4 days: problems appear Thursday, 5pm and reports are due online before Monday, 5pm. Generally one of the problems is designed for modeling using continuous mathematics, one for modeling with discrete mathematics, and one typically involves the analysis of a given data set. Topics are often drawn from real world issues, but some are more whimsical. Some recent problems:
Design a drone-based disaster relief program fro Puerto Rico after a hurricane.
Modeling the merging of traffic on a multi-lane highway after a toll booth.
Build a mathematical model to assist in a search for a lost plane that crashed in the open ocean.
Model the behavior of the dragons from the Game of Thrones fictional world including their impact on the local eco-systems.
The Mathematics Department provides space and support for the competing teams during the contest. More information and the problems from the contest of many previous years can be found on the web site: http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/
Math 371, Math Modeling Seminar, a 2-unit support course for the MCM. It is expected that all students enrolled in Math 371 will participate in the competition. However, you do not need to enroll in Math 371 to participate in the contest. The course is scheduled to meet MW 6-7pm.
Dr. Charles D. Camp
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-3407
office: 25-309
ph: (805) 756-1661
fax: (805) 756-6537
email: camp@calpoly.edu
We offer a support 2 unit support course, Math 371, to coach the teams competing the MCM. This year, Math 371 will be offered in the Fall quarter (FQ20), MW 6-7pm.
You do not need to enroll in Math 371 to compete in the MCM, but it's strongly recommended that you do -- epsecially if you haven't not competed in the MCM before. Details about the MCM competition and the Math 371 course are given below. If you are interested in the competition, please contact me and/or enroll in Math 371.
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The MCM is an international competition, held over 4 days, where teams of three undergraduates construct mathematical models to investigate and present solutions for real world problems. Teams choose one of three problems posted online at the start of the contest and submit a detail report of their model and solution within 4 days: problems appear Thursday, 5pm and reports are due online before Monday, 5pm. Generally one of the problems is designed for modeling using continuous mathematics, one for modeling with discrete mathematics, and one typically involves the analysis of a given data set. Topics are often drawn from real world issues, but some are more whimsical. Some recent problems:
Design a drone-based disaster relief program fro Puerto Rico after a hurricane.
Modeling the merging of traffic on a multi-lane highway after a toll booth.
Build a mathematical model to assist in a search for a lost plane that crashed in the open ocean.
Model the behavior of the dragons from the Game of Thrones fictional world including their impact on the local eco-systems.
The Mathematics Department provides space and support for the competing teams during the contest. More information and the problems from the contest of many previous years can be found on the web site: http://www.comap.com/undergraduate/contests/mcm/
Math 371, Math Modeling Seminar, a 2-unit support course for the MCM. It is expected that all students enrolled in Math 371 will participate in the competition. However, you do not need to enroll in Math 371 to participate in the contest. The course is scheduled to meet MW 6-7pm.
Dr. Charles D. Camp
Assistant Professor
Mathematics Department
California Polytechnic State University
San Luis Obispo, CA 93407-3407
office: 25-309
ph: (805) 756-1661
fax: (805) 756-6537
email: camp@calpoly.edu
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