The department of Mathematics and Statistics at Missouri S&T offers degree programs in Applied Mathematics at the B.S. and M.S. levels, the M.S for Teachers, and the Ph.D. in Mathematics. In addition to these programs, the department provides critical support for Missouri S&T's mission as Missouri's Technological University, since nearly all science and engineering students here take two years or more of mathematics. The department strives to maintain an environment that enhances the learning of mathematics and contributes to the vitality of mathematics as a living discipline through course offerings, seminars and colloquia, research, and public service.

The faculty in the department are committed to maintaining high-quality instruction. Our placement program (for all Missouri S&T students, not only mathematics majors) has a good, proven track record and benefits the students by putting them into the proper mathematics course at the beginning of their stay at Missouri S&T. As a result, our success rate in the calculus course is the envy of most mathematics departments nationwide, where failure rates in calculus of 50% or more are a cause of much concern. We are heavily involved in incorporating modern technology into our curriculum, and require the use of a regularly used, top-level graphing calculator. Also, we use sophisticated computer algebra systems, such as Maple and Mathematica, which have state-of-the-art graphics and symbolic manipulation features, in some of our courses. Our statistics courses employ the latest statistics software. Since the beginning of Missouri S&T's assessment program, our undergraduate majors have performed quite well on national assessment examinations, with over half of our students in the top quartile. A number of our faculty and graduate teaching assistants have won outstanding teacher awards.

Most of the faculty also maintain their own and the department's professional development through publication of research, speaking at and organizing conferences, and filling leadership roles in professional organizations. The high-quality instruction, mentioned above, and the research activity of the faculty are the principal components of the department's respected graduate program, which has produced many M.S. students and over 60 Ph.D. students. Many of our M.S. and Ph.D. graduates hold academic, government, or industrial positions across the country, from Texas to Minnesota and Maine to California, with, of course, a large concentration in Missouri and surrounding states.

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