Welcome to CE 531.

Below are some knowledge, understanding, or skills that will be required for
this course. Please rate your competency for each of these items.

Required Knowledge, Self-Assessment of Competency

Understanding or Skill

Can’t do Can do, but Can do, Can do, Mastered

struggle most of almost
the time always

1. Vector representation and

operations
2. Tensor representation and
operations
3. Matrix representation and
operations
4. Cartesian coordinate system
5. Transformation among
Cartesian coordinate systems
6. Eigen-value problem
formulation and solution