Scribd
Upload
25 views3 pages

MATH-361, Probability and Statistics

The document outlines the lesson plan for the MATH-361 course on Probability and Statistics at NUST Institute of Civil Engineering, detailing the course structure, objectives, and learning outcomes. It includes a comprehensive weekly topic breakdown, assessment methods, and relevant textbooks. The course aims to equip civil engineering students with essential statistical and probabilistic concepts applicable to engineering problems.

Uploaded by

Hamza Kaleem
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
25 views3 pages

MATH-361, Probability and Statistics

The document outlines the lesson plan for the MATH-361 course on Probability and Statistics at NUST Institute of Civil Engineering, detailing the course structure, objectives, and learning outcomes. It includes a comprehensive weekly topic breakdown, assessment methods, and relevant textbooks. The course aims to equip civil engineering students with essential statistical and probabilistic concepts applicable to engineering problems.

Uploaded by

Hamza Kaleem
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
We take content rights seriously. If you suspect this is your content, claim it here.
Available Formats
Download as PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 3

NUST Institute of Civil Engineering Form #

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Date of Issue

Lesson Plan Page No 1 of 3

COURSE CODE: MATH-361


COURSE NAME: Probability and Statistics
CREDIT HOURS: Theory = 3
Practical = 0

Total = 3
CONTACT HOURS: Theory = 48
Practical = 0
Total = 48
PREREQUISITE: Calculus and Analytical Geometry
MODE OF TEACHING:
Instruction 75%
Discussion/Debate 10%
Exercises/Tutorial 15%
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
The course offers the basic understanding of Statistics and Probability. This course covers the use of
statistical analysis in civil engineering problems and gives a detailed review of descriptive statistics and
probability, detailed study of important distributions such as binomial, exponential, Poisson, normal
distributions etc. and their applications in civil engineering.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:
• The objectives of this course are to introduce the basic terms of statistics and probability to Civil
Engineering students.

RELEVANT PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES (PLOs):


The course is designed so that students will achieve the PLO/s:
1 Engineering Knowledge: ☐ 7 Environment and Sustainability: ☐
2 Problem Analysis:  8 Ethics: ☐
3 Design/Development of Solutions: ☐ 9 Individual and Team Work: ☐
4 Investigation: ☐ 10 Communication: ☐
5 Modern Tool Usage: ☐ 11 Project Management: ☐
6 The Engineer and Society: ☐ 12 Lifelong Learning: ☐
NUST Institute of Civil Engineering Form #

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Date of Issue

Lesson Plan Page No 2 of 3

COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (CLOs):


Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:
Taxonomy
S.No CLO Domain PLO
Level
Apply the concepts of statistics to analyse
1 Cognitive 3 2
experimental data.
2 Comprehend the concepts of probability. Cognitive 2 -
Apply the concepts of statistics for testing of
3 Cognitive 3 2
hypothesis
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS:
• Experimental studies in Structural Analysis
• Experimental studies in Water resource management

TOPICSCOVERED:

Week Topic
/Lectu
re
Introduction to descriptive and inferential statistics, measurement of scales,
1
Collection of data, Classification, Distribution, Graphical representation.
Histograms, frequency polygons, types of frequency curves, Cumulative
2
frequencies, Relative Frequencies.
Histograms for the unequal class widths, Measure of central tendency, Arithmetic
3
mean, Geometric mean, Harmonic mean, relation between A.M, G.M and H.M.
Median, quartiles, deciles, percentiles, mode. Root mean square, Relation between
4
mean median and the mode, Merits and Demerits of averages.
Measure of Variability, variance, standard deviation, coefficient of variation,
5-6 range; inter quartile range, coefficient of Quartile deviation, Mean deviation,
Coefficient of mean deviation, moments, skewness, and kurtosis.
Introduction to probability, review of set theory, sample space, events, axioms of
7
probability.
Permutation and combination, conditional probability, dependent and independent
7
events
8 Distribution function, discrete random variable and its probability distribution.
9 Continuous random variable and its probability density function.
10-11 Mathematical expectation of a random variable, moment generating functions
12 Binomial distribution and its applications, Poisson distribution and its application.
13 Uniform, exponential and normal distributions
NUST Institute of Civil Engineering Form #

School of Civil and Environmental Engineering Date of Issue

Lesson Plan Page No 3 of 3

14 Binomial distribution approximation to Normal distribution


15-16 Student-t test, Z-test, Testing of hypothesis
17-18 End semester Examination
TEXT AND MATERIAL:
Textbook (s)
1. Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Engineers and Scientists by Sheldon M. Ross.
References Material:
1. Calculus with Analytic Geometry by Thomas and Finny.
2. Probability and Statistics by Murray R.Spiegel, John J.Schiller, A.V.Srinivasan, Mike Levan.

ASSESMENT SYSTEM:

1. CLOs Assessment

Cognitive Psychomotor Affective


Spreadsheet Rubrics Rubrics

2. Relative Grading

Theoretical / Instruction 100%


Assignments 10%
Quizzes 10%
OHT Exams 30%
End Semester Exam 50%
Total 100%

Prepared
Name with Sign Dr. Umer Saeed
By(Instructor)

Dr. Rao Arsalan Khushnood/ Dr. Muhammad Usman


Reviewed By
Name with Sign
(LQEC)

Approved By
Name with Sign Dr. Liaqat Ali
(Assoc Dean)

You might also like