The SCHOL/SCHOLaR Project
University of Maryland, College Park

The SCHOL project is a collaboration by Kevin Coombes, Brian Hunt, Ron Lipsman, John Osborn and Garrett Stuck, all on the faculty of the Mathematics Department at the University of Maryland, College Park, to introduce mathematical software into undergraduate courses in a meaningful way. The project began in 1992 with the introduction of Mathematica into the sophomore level Ordinary Differential Equations course. Since then, the project has resulted in supplementary textbooks for using Mathematica, Maple, and MATLAB in the sophomore ODE course, all published by Wiley, and general purpose Mathematica and MATLAB primers, published by Cambridge. Jonathan Rosenberg has joined the group (now SCHOLaR) for the last of these projects and for the new edition of the MATLAB ODE book.

The CLeaR project, an offshoot of the SCHOL project, is a collaboration among Kevin Coombes, Ron Lipsman and Jonathan Rosenberg to introduce Mathematica into the sophomore Multivariable Calculus course.

Detailed information about these projects is available by clicking the links below or the icons on the left.