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Dr. Susan Mac Donald

Title:

Lecturer in Mathematics

School/ Department:

School of Science & Computing - Dept Computing & Mathematics

Campus:

Main Campus

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My Biography

Office: FTG02, T-Block, Main Campus (to right of Students' Union Office if facing its main door).

WIT: Sunday Times Institute of Technology of the Year 2021

Student Parents’ Network

 

 

 

Qualifications

  • PhD (Mathematics)
  • MSc (Clinical Science)
  • MA (Mathematics) 
  • PG Dip Statistics for Evidence-Based Medicine
  • PG Dip Computer Science

Education

  • Maynooth University
  • Keele University
  • University of Oxford
  • University of Chester

Extended Research Projects

  • Foundationally Flawed Composite Geometry (Maynooth University)
  • Programmable Computational Musicology (University of York)

 

 

 

Current Lectures

 

Further Calculus and Probability

  • Bachelor Electrical Engineering, Year 2
  • HC Electronic Engineering, Year 2.

Mathematical Methods with Scilab/MatLab programming

  • BSc Applied Computing, Year 2
  • BSc Computer Forensics and Security, Year 2
  • BSc Entertainment Systems, Year 2
  • BSc The Internet of Things, Year 2.

Applied Statistics for Scientists (with Minitab)

  • BSc Agricultural Science, Year 2
  • BSc Food Science with Business, Year 2.

Statistics for Engineers (with Minitab)

  • BEng Sustainable Energy Engineering, Year 3.

History of Mathematics

  • Professional Diploma in Mathematics for Teaching, Year 2 (for University of Limerick).

Functional Mathematics

  • Certificate in Skills for Independent Living, Year 1.

Applied Mathematics for Scientists

  • BSc Applied Biology, Year 2
  • BSc Pharmaceutical Science, Year 2.

Further Statistics (with Excel programming)

  • BSc Information Technology, Year 2.

Mathematics for Problem Solving

  • BSc Multi-Media Applications, Year 1.

 

 

 

Previous Lectures

 

Music Technology and Composition (BA Music, Years 1, 2, 3 and 4).

Computational Musicology (BA Music, Years 2, 3 and 4).

Acoustics  BA Music (Year 1).

Computer Music (Postgraduate Diploma)

Management Science with Excel programming (BSc Information Technology, Year 2).

Mathematical Modelling and Statistics (BSc Multi-Media Applications, Year 1).

Mathematics for Computing (BSc Multi-Media Applications, Year 1).

 

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Student Parents

 

Waterford Institute of Technology Student Parents’ Network.

Irish Times: Is it possible to balance college and parenthood?

SPN Contact Details

Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Programming and Mathematics Workshops for Parents in Public Libraries and schools.

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