The programme leads to an award of a BSc Degree in Mathematics.
Mathematics, the science of structure, order, and relation that has evolved from elemental practices of counting, measuring, and describing the shapes of objects.
The undergraduate programme in the department leads to an award of BSc Degree in Mathematics.
The progamme structure requires a student to complete an average of 180 credit units in a minimum of three or four years.
The Programme Mathematics started in November 22, 2016 when the University was given a charter by the Nigerian universities Commission to operate as one of the private universities in Nigeria.
The Mathematics Programme started as an undergraduate programme in the Department of Mathematics And Computer Science under the Faculty of Science of Clifford University Owerrinta and has remained so till date.
Other Faculties approved by the NUC at inception of this school were the Faculties of Management and Social Sciences and Faculty of Humanities. The programme Mathematics started with one pioneer student. The following year there was no Mathematics student whereas there was an increase in the number of students in the other programmes in the Faculty. At present, Mathematics has only one student each in 300level and 100level.
Mathematics And Computer Science of Clifford University relates Integration of Faith in Learning in every aspect of Mathematics as we believe that God was very calculative in the creation event.
Although laying foundation is not an easy task, the programme has survived wind blow because of the solid foundation laid by Prof. C.U Iroegbu. His encouragement and fatherly advice to us is simply inestimable.
Mathematics started with three staff members namely Dr Nkem Ogbonna (Associate Professor), Mrs Nwachukwu Ijeoma Enuice, an Assistant Lecturer, Mr Nwasuka Stanley Chinwekele, an Assistant Lecturer. They all worked tirelessly to take the programme to what is obtainable in other universities and making sure the programme courses are in line with the National Universities Commission Minimum bench mark. But today we have five Mathematicians on ground they are Prof. S.J. Kayode, Dr Nkem Ogbonna (Associate Professor), Dr Everestus Obinwanne Eze, Senior Lecturer, Mrs Nwachukwu Ijeoma Enuice,an Assistant Lecturer Mr Nwasuka Stanley Chinwekele, Assistant lecturer. These indisputable Mathematicians are ever determined to see that their only begotten daughter will compete favorably with her mates from other institutions and also be a solid material in the Labor market. In a way to achieving this, good training in the form of lectures, tutorials and seminars, tests, assignments, academic conference, examinations is geared towards producing competent and well trained Mathematics graduates.
Although, we have not got Mathematics/Computer Lab ,that have not stop our student from learning some mathematical software programme that will help the mathematics graduate to think logically and approach real life problems in a creative ways.
VISION
The Programme is driven by producing graduates who can make informed contributions to scientific, technological, economic and social issues in a globalized environment such as the attainment of the Vision of the University and the Sustainable Development goals (SDGs). Thus, the various research clusters in the Programme are involved in research geared toward the attainment of both Visions of the University and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
MISSION
The Programme is focused on raising a new generation of leaders equipped in their total personality to positively influence their community and restore hope to the citizens of their nations and mankind in general. The programmes are designed to provide the students with a thorough, broad and balanced foundation to prepare them for a career opportunity or an environment whereby they could be creative, innovative and self-reliant.
The Programme strives to achieve alongside the University’s goal of developing of wholesome being through instruction, Christian Education and mentorship, participatory basic and applied research as well as generating community-relevant information and technologies.
The Undergraduate Programmes is designed to help students develop competence in mathematical techniques and methods; to sharpen the students’ mathematical intuition and abstract reasoning as well as their reasoning from numerical data, to encourage and stimulate the type of independent thinking required for research beyond the confines of the textbook and to provide students with basic knowledge and skills to make mathematical contributions to modern society at large. Our program seeks to enable students to see and communicate how the development of mathematics has been part of the development of several civilizations and is ultimately interwoven with the cultural and scientific development of these societies and the core Christian values. The curriculum prepares students to enter graduate school, pursue careers in applied mathematics and function as professional Mathematicians in industries, research institutes and in the larger society.
The aim is to raise a group of mathematicians who can think logically and approach real-life problems in analytical and creative ways, use the development of mathematics as a tool for innovations in science and technology and also provide its students with a broad-based knowledge of Pure and Applied Mathematics with some emphasis on the following areas Mathematical modelling:
Biomathematics, Optimal Control, Optimization, Operations research, Computational Mathematics with software like MAT Lab, Maple, Sage and Python, Applications in Statistics, Algebra, Stochastic Processes, Probability and Measure Theory, Scientific Computing, Fluid Mechanics, Mathematical Physics, Differential Equations (Partial and Ordinary).
OBJECTIVES
The objectives of the programme are to equip the graduates
1. With an understanding of the fundamental principles of Pure and Applied Mathematics.
2. By using interdisciplinary orientations and approaches to solving life challenging problems.
3. To raise a group of mathematicians who can think logically and approach real-life problems in analytical and creative ways.
4. To raise a group of mathematicians who can also use the development of mathematics as a tool for innovations in science and technology.
5. To raise a group of Mathematicians that can apply their problem-solving and Data analysis skills to a wide range of fields, including:
a. Banking and finance (maximizing profit and minimizing loss/risk)
b. Epidemiology(modelling of infectious diseases and their dynamics)
c. Information Security (coding, cryptography)
d. Environmental modelling (resources biodiversity, weather and climate)
e. Medical research(treatment and drug efficacy and resistance)
f. Bioinformatics (modelling in Genes, phylogenetic and Genomics)
g. Marketing (market segmentation and clustering)
h. Telecommunications (Operations Research: Linear Programming and Network Theory)
i. Engineering (fluid mechanics, optimizing industrial processes)
j. Research and Development etc
k. Lecturing and Research
l. Educational Consultancy