All freshmen students take a placement examination in mathematics.
Students who fail to take the placement exam or who perform poorly on it are placed into pre-calculus. The terms during which a course is offered are given in paretheses. Some courses are not offered every term. Special functions of engineering and science are emphasized, including polynomial, trigonometric, and exponential functions and their inverses. Concepts and methods of algebra, trigonometry, and analytic geometry important to calculus are also emphasized.