Mission
Statement
Our mission is a dual mission of research and teaching in
computer science and mathematics, as well as service to the campus and the
community.
Our mission as a research department is that our regular
faculty members will maintain current and active research programs. They will
publish in scholarly publications and present their research at national and
international conferences. They will try to obtain funding for their research
and for training their graduate students. The research done by the faculty
informs their teaching and allows them to bring up to date information about
the field to their graduate and undergraduate students. In addition, their
knowledge of cutting edge research and technology can be shared with local
industry and other constituents in the community.
Our website has links that will let you see some of the
research activities of our faculty.
As a teaching department, our regular faculty, teaching
faculty and adjunct faculty will bring breadth and rigor to the teaching of
computer science, mathematics and statistics. We expect that new teaching
methods and technology will be adopted if they help our teaching mission, and
that additional courses will be created as new fields develop. Our commitment
to teaching is from the lowest level of remedial mathematics to the highest
doctoral level. We also teach a number of service courses that help students
from other disciplines learn the computer skills and the mathematics/statistics
skills that they need.
Trained experts in computer science/mathematics/statistics
are important for the state of Missouri and the nation as well. Our mission is
to encourage students from diverse backgrounds, including mathematically weak
backgrounds, to aspire towards such expertise. Our courses are taught both day
and evening in order to accommodate a variety of students.
A major goal of our BA and BS degrees in mathematics and
our BS degree in computer science is to create a workforce rigorously trained
in these fields. In addition, we assist
in training future high school mathematics teachers through our cooperation
with the College of Education in the BSEd program. We train students at the
Masters level in both computer science and math, and they go into industry,
teaching or research after their MA/MS.
Several such graduates go on to PhD or professional programs. Our PhD
program in applied mathematics has both a computer science option and a
mathematics option and is designed to accommodate the working adult as well
traditional students.
As the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at
the University of Missouri -St. Louis, we provide in the city and county of St.
Louis an affordable public education that trains our students with
comprehensiveness and rigor.
Prabhakar Rao,
Chair, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
September 2007
Department of Mathematics
and Computer Science
303 CCB, One University
Blvd
St. Louis, MO 63121