updated September 6, 2010

Sixty-four freshmen to Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology got off to a quick start on their college careers by successfully completing the Fast Track Calculus mathematics program. The program crams 30 weeks of first-year calculus classes into an accelerated five-week education program (from July 19 to August 20) for outstanding students who have had one year of calculus and analytic geometry in high school.
 

Problem Solvers: Two members of this year’s Fast Track Calculus program work together to solve a homework problem. The program showcases how students must work in teams to overcome academic challenges at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

This year’s class is the largest in the history of the program and required four instructors: Elton Graves, associate professor of mathematics; and Michael DeVasher, Steve Galinaitis and Tom Langley, assistant professors of mathematics.

 
Fast Track Calculus allows students to review differential and integral calculus, cover all of multivariable calculus and become familiar with the computer implementation of mathematics. Students completing the program get 15 academic credit hours (passing the normal freshman calculus courses) and are able to enter sophomore-level mathematics courses as a freshman.

 
Those students completing the Fast Track Calculus program this year were:

• Robert Andrews of Goshen, Ind.

• Marissa Artmayer of Cincinnati, Ohio

• Travis Baumbaugh of Granger, Ind.

• Kimberly Boucher of Lafayette, Colo.

• Nathanial Catt of Greenwood, Ind.

• Robert Chenault of Atlanta

• Stephen Collins of Evansville, Ind.

• Harrison Coons of Sunfish Lake, Minn.

• David Cooper of Greenwood Village, Colo.

• Katerine Dial of Heath, Ohio

• Taylor Dowden of Urbana, Mo.

• Jon Drobny of Clinton, Ind.

• Pavel Dutta of Kolkata, West Bengal, India

• Zachary Ernst of West Bloomfield, Mich.

• Logan Fagg of Valparaiso, Ind.

• David Galvez of Cooper City, Fla.

• Dylan Hay of Rockport, Ind.

• Megan Hildebrand of Charlestown, Ind.

• Ethan Hixon of Willow Hill, Ill.

• Christopher Hoorn of Richland, Mich.

• Michael Howell of Batesville, Ind.

• Zhiqi Hu of Beijing, China

• Frank Huang of Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

• Daniel Kahl of Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

• Mason Kessler of Vernon Hills, Ill.

• William Lo of North Las Vegas, Nev.

• Ted Lundholm of St. Cloud, Minn.

• Michael Mathes of Dunlap, Ill.

• Alayna McNamara of Decatur, Ind.

• Alex Merchant of Hiawatha, Kan.

• Jonathan Modene of Perrysburg, Ohio

• Laura Moss of Wilmington, Del.

• Veer Nairyani of Pune, Maharashtra

• Brandon Naylor of Indianapolis

• Christopher O’Daniel of Inver Grove Heights, Minn.

• Ryan Oliver of North Oaks, Minn.

• Geoffrey Ong of Elkhart, Ind.

• Samantha Pace of Ypsilanti, Mich.

• Yae Jin Park of Daejon, Korea

• Lijing Peng of Richmond, Ind.

• Charles Phillips of Batavia, Ill.

• Andrew Piliser of San Diego, Calif.

• Trent Purviance of Bristol, Ind.

• Neville Rao of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

• Kyle Robertson of Henryville, Ind.

• Andrew Ruth of Chandler, Ariz.

• Ryan Sagul, Gainesville, Fla.

• Elaine Schaudt of Villa Park, Ill.

• Tyler Schlusemann of Batavia, Ill.

• Vania Seng of Hanover, Ind.

• Lee Siemer of Dillsboro, Ind.

• Brett Sneed of Kingwood, Texas

• Marie Stettler of Edgerton, Wis.

• Alexander Thomas of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

• Daniel Untener of Kettering, Ohio

• Peter Vannauker of Kingwood, Texas

• Kuanran Wang of Chengdu, Sichuan, China

• Grant Warmoth of Martinsville, Ind.

• Ellen Wei of Beijing, China

• Stephen Wuest of Fort Wayne, Ind.

• Victor Ye of Chengdu Sichuan, China

• Ziyang Yin of Shanghai, China

• Alex Zellner of White Bear Lake, Minn.

• Ying Zhou of Naperville, Ill.

Find out more information about the Fast Track Calculus program at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/mathFTC/home.html