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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Differential Equations for Engineers by The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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About the Course

This course is all about differential equations and covers both theory and applications. In the first five weeks, students will learn about ordinary differential equations, while the sixth week is an introduction to partial differential equations. The course includes 56 concise lecture videos, with a few problems to solve after each lecture. After each major topic, there is a short practice quiz. At the end of each week, there is an assessed quiz. Solutions to the problems and practice quizzes can be found in the instructor-provided lecture notes. Download the lecture notes from the link https://www.math.hkust.edu.hk/~machas/differential-equations-for-engineers.pdf Watch the promotional video from the link https://youtu.be/eSty7oo09ZI...

Top reviews

MS

May 6, 2024

Excellent course notes that can be used for a reference in real life after completing the course. Great practice problems with solution explanations in the notes, and clear and concise lecture videos.

YY

Aug 5, 2020

The course materials are well prepared and organised. The teaching style is approachable and clear. I have learned a lot from this course. Thank you so much, and wish you all the best Prof. Chasnov!

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By Mike R

Apr 24, 2023

Great course - it is a beginner course for differential equations, but you need a sound basis in single variable calculus as the course gets difficult from week 3 onward!

Overall, I am very happy to have studied this course and learned a lot in the process.

By Salim M

Aug 2, 2020

This course is valuable for engineering students. Saying so, if you are a mathematics lover, do join this course as you will be expanding your knowledge. The lectures and reading materials are very helpful. I enjoyed being a part of this course. Thank you.

By Derek E

Oct 3, 2019

This is an excellent overview of the subject. Although I wish there was more coverage of partial differential equations, I understand the limitations of a four week course, and feel that Prof. Chasnov did an excellent job of covering the important topics.

By Anthony A S

Jul 4, 2021

I really learned a lot about differential equations from this course and enjoyed taking it. Prof. Chasnov explains things really well and the exercise problems and quizzes were well-designed and helped a lot in making sure the topics are well understood.

By Dat N

Aug 9, 2019

The professor explains everything in great details in a calm manner. After each video there is a small but not trivial exercise which I found very useful in consolidating the concept. Highly recommend for anyone who want to study Differential Equations.

By Gabriel C

May 31, 2020

Exceptional work. I would recommend this course to anyone wanting to anyone starting differential equations. It will allows you to have a broad view of topics, before delving further into some of particular interest with other course (if you elect to).

By Wu D

Sep 10, 2023

Although personally speaking this course is the most difficult one in this series, the course arrangement is systematic and reasonable. Students can easily follow the course. Hoping Professor could come up more high-quality series courses like this!

By Alex C

Jan 27, 2021

excellent course! Jeff has awesome enthusiasm and explains things incredibly clearly and well. I really enjoyed this course. I am really looking forward to his future courses. Some tensor stuff or more applied pdes for fluid mechanics or or or... :-)

By Christopher M

May 27, 2024

I took this as a review course and had a great time time learning from Professor Chasnov. His videos and readings made learning differential equations very straightforward, and using real world problems helped put them in an engineering context.

By Dan C

Apr 17, 2022

Another excellent course from professor Chesnov. Covers mostly the basics of differential equations but does it in a very straightforward and intuitive way. Interesting applications. Recommended as a refresher for other, more extensive courses.

By Henrik J

Aug 28, 2021

Excellent course! The videos are really informative and easy to follow, great quizzes and course compendium. I have learned a lot from this course that I can apply when solving various differential equations when modeling physical phenoma.

By Yalamanchili s

Jun 4, 2020

Excellent teaching material and way of presentation good thought provoking quiz and assignments well determined course a good way of learning environment available glad to see that this kind of courses are evolved from Hong Kong university

By Xinyuan G

Feb 2, 2023

One who has some knowledge of college physics would achieve a better understanding of a small part of the contents, but even without the knowledge, one would find the course a very helpful review of ways to solve differential equations.

By CARL A I

Apr 30, 2024

Solving the diffusion equation by Fourier series is very illuminating. As far as I can work out, Professor Chasnov's course shows in principle how spatial spectral components can arise directly from an underlying differential equation.

By Ragnar L

Aug 9, 2020

Excellent course. Excellent teacher. Well balanced. I'd recommend it to anyone interested in this subject. I took Diff. E.Q. as an undergrad in 1974. Glad to see nothing has changed much in the past 46 years ... or make that 349 years.

By Sandro S L

Jun 16, 2023

Best course I've taken online.

Simple and explicit approaches, the teacher masters what he does. I am happy to take this course. I learned a lot of things and I feel that I have better skills in Diffenrential Equations as an engineer

By Vladimir R P B

Mar 26, 2021

I took this course as a refresher before I start my PHD and it definitely gave me what I wanted. It's simple enough to work well for beginners and comprehensive enough to give you all you need to start working more difficult topics.

By S Y

Jul 12, 2020

Amazing Course. Every aspect of the differential equation has been explained thoroughly with an ample amount of practice and examples. The key outcome was to learn modeling physical problem as a differential equation and solving it

By Gilberto U

Sep 24, 2021

Excellent introductory or review course on ordinary and partial differential equations. I enjoyed very much this course. I am a retired engineering professor reviewing math applications, and I found this course very helpful.

By Ariel G C S

Oct 27, 2024

I really enjoyed this course. It provides a comprehensive introduction to all the key topics in differential equations while also including real-life applications that deepen understanding and make the subject more engaging.

By Deepanjali T

Oct 9, 2020

This course is very important and useful for everyone. I learnt many things from this course. Doing this course greatly Doing this course greatly increased my knowledge. Thank you. My thanks to all the coursera team members.

By Gregory T

May 8, 2021

This course really helped me learn differential equations. I have a decent understanding of the subject now and I have more confidence in my ability to handle differential equations when I encounter them in other courses.

By James L

Mar 8, 2021

This course is well designed, with detailed explanations and well-structured examples. Course difficulty is fair, definitely recommended for those who want to learn differential equations with basic college math knowledge

By Joachim Ö

Apr 25, 2020

Well balanced between video lectures and quizzes. The videos are very pedagogical and the right length to digest. A good reading material is provided as well, but the solutions to quizzed could be slightly more detailed.

By GOTTUMUKKALA S P V 1

May 16, 2021

The course of simple awesome. It is easily understandable and well explained. I really enjoyed the course frim the first video and practice quit till the last ones. I am feeling great to be a part of this course.