Introductory engineering courses at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, Massachusetts, challenge students to understand number systems, use calculators appropriately and make estimations without a calculator, detect potential calculation errors, know and use the basic trigonometric identities, and graph trigonometric functions. For each of these tasks, students are asked to consider the information and examples provided and then to follow the directions to reach a solution.

Associated Benchmarks

ADP benchmarks that address the knowledge and skills required to complete these tasks are: