Mathematics

专业介绍

 While our department is filled with faculty who regularly win awards for their research, we also have a group of permanent teaching-focused faculty who are both mathematics subject matter experts and also experts in mathematics pedagogy and teaching.  Both groups of faculty regularly win teaching awards.  Our teaching-focused faculty work exclusively on undergraduate education, and both groups of faculty work closely together, often with visiting instructors and teaching fellows, to carefully design syllabi and assessments for our lower division courses, and to monitor and adjust testing and placement decisions (using SAT/ACT/AP/IB scores and/or the Math Placement Exam) based on closely tracked outcomes for follow-on classes every year.  While we have a very large undergraduate math major (with a number of different major focuses), our teaching contribution to the campus is dominated by lower-division undergraduate math courses for students majoring in aerospace engineering, biochemistry, biology, chemistry, cognitive science, computer science, data science, economics, electrical engineering, environmental systems, human development, international studies, mechanical engineering, public health, psychology, structural engineering, and in a number of other STEM and STEM-adjacent majors.  In fact, as a STEM-focused campus with more than 80% of majors at UCSD requiring math, the mathematics department teaches more students every year than any other department at UCSD, and in fact we teach more students than each of the individual schools (collections of departments) across the entire campus.  This places on us an extraordinary responsibility.