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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

YY

Aug 6, 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!

HW

Dec 2, 2024

The professor is really good at teaching. Examples are easy to understand. Practices are not very hard but require some effort and need you to understand the concepts and methods. Great experience!

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By Axmedov M I

Aug 21, 2020

good

By Revgade A D

Aug 13, 2020

Ok .

By Mrs A C

Jul 30, 2020

Nice

By Ullas G

Jul 23, 2020

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By Thadem P k

Jun 15, 2020

nice

By Rakesh C

Jun 8, 2020

Good

By Tharite I

Jun 5, 2020

good

By CHRISTY V V

May 16, 2020

good

By Harshitha G

Apr 20, 2020

WELL

By DR. M E

Apr 20, 2020

good

By Muskan A

Nov 22, 2019

good

By VASA S N

Nov 1, 2019

GOOD

By Srinivas C M

Mar 26, 2019

good

By Маслянчук Д С

Apr 17, 2023

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By REYAD A R

Jul 3, 2020

OK

By Бычков А Д

Apr 20, 2023

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By Nitu G

Sep 29, 2020

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By Zin M S

Sep 5, 2020

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By Zhonglu L

Feb 2, 2025

I give it four stars. Pros: Overall, the course is very good! meaning that, it provides a good route map to navigate through this domain of math with connection to engineering. It is fundamentally free with a concise lecture note. Cons: Some steps goes through too quickly assuming the students are quite capable of auto-grasping / calculating / processing the information. So it really takes some efforts to follow the course rigorously while also grasping the math thinking. Suggest: I found deepseek and chatgpt to be extremely useful that they can answer my pin-point pain-in-the-S problems. That really helps in clarifying my misunderstanding and they barely made mistakes (R1 and O1). So I suggest the cousera or the teacher to somehow integrate these as standard learning tools. Not to mention that, deepseek is even free now. Delivering best wishes and gratitudes to course maker Jeffrey R. Chasnov.

By Tom C

Oct 29, 2024

A nice introduction to DE, but not the same as taking it in a face-to-face class obviously. You only get out of a course what you put into it and without larger homework sets, you just don't get a large amount out. Of course, if you took the class face-to-face, along with larger homework sets, you'd have interactions with other students and office-hours with the professor. I don't think you could make it better by just making the homework sets larger. Two things are nice, though, compared to an average coursea course. I took this course independently, but (1) the instructor replied to a question within 24 hours, so he is still monitoring the course and (2) the course pings you if you don't do one assignment a week.

By Richard D

Oct 30, 2023

Great content, covered very well by the teacher. He makes it easy to understand, and you can see this material will prove useful in many applications in the future. The only reason I didn't give 5 stars is that - as it is often the case on this subject - we were never exhaustive on ways to try and solve the differential equations. For example, a particular ansatz gives us a general solution, OK. But how do we know no other solution exist? Or rather, why don't we try to find different solutions...?

By Arsalan M K

May 15, 2021

A great course! Although it took me too long to complete it, I believe this was a well rounded and balanced course. I loved the exercises and quizzes after every topic as they really embed what you learn in your mind. What could have been improved is more of modelling real life system like variations of concentration of brine and water tanks filling systems. Thanks Professor Jeffery Chasnov!

By Vicente M

Apr 21, 2020

Iy's really a good cuorse to learn differential equations, it has certainly focus on the engineers abilities and if you've never seen differential equations, this course will certainly give you the bases.

My only issue is that in some topics is not shown all the process, and many times i ended watching the book and thinking how he ends in that point.

A really good course, I recomend it!

By CHIRAG J

May 23, 2020

Its a good course for anyone who wants to take a step ahead in field of differential equations after high school. Although, I think that the course could have focused more problem solving assignments or quizzes but nonetheless the course content is self sufficient in introducing new methods and techniques to solve differential equations of different kinds.

By Dr M

Feb 1, 2021

I like the course very much but have difficulty in understanding the concept of Diffusion. This course is very relevant not only for the students of science and technology but also for the researchers, teachers and modelers. By attending this course one can model his/her problems on real world and can produce interesting results.