Are C&M students likely to run into trouble when they take follow-up engineering and math courses in which the professor bans calculators and computers?
Follow-up studies done by the UIUC College of Engineering at Illinois indicate that former C&M students are fully competitive in these courses. Many C&M students have gone onto graduate school in engineering and science (Illinois, Cal Tech, MIT, Cal-Berkeley, Texas, Minnesota, etc). Others are in medical schools. Many have excellent jobs in the business world ( Arthur Anderson, Intel, Caterpillar, Pixar, Ford, Motorola, Wolfram Research, U.S. Navy, etc). Others are teaching in high school. Many C&M students have opted to go on to minor in mathematics thanks to their early C&M experience. Back to Top Q: Must students have experience with computers and the Mathematica software before they can take a C&M class? A: Not at all. No previous Mathematica training is required or expected. Students learn to use the Mathematica code gradually as they progress through the courses. The overwhelming majority (85% as measured by survey) of new C&M students with no previous Mathematica experience repo
