Message from COD

Message from COD

Dr. OTULO WANDERA CYRILUS, PhD Applied Statistics

Welcome to the Department of Mathematics and Physics is anchored in the School of Applied and Health Sciences. Currently, the department offers double career market driven undergraduate, postgraduate and professional courses in in the areas of Mathematics, Applied Statistics & Computer Science, Mathematical Finance, Physics and Renewable energy.

The Mathematics and Physics Department supports the mission of Technical University of Mombasa and its School of Applied & Health Science through its commitment to academic excellence, dedicated teaching and scholarship in the tradition of community service. The department values the beauty, logic, and rigor seen in the theoretical nature of the discipline as well as the practicality and power exhibited in its applications. It is a department of researchers-scholars that draws upon the rich multicultural heritage of the discipline and the innovative approaches made possible by modern technology. Thus, the members of the department are able to provide students with a liberal science-based education that is both traditional and contemporary, in order that they may become innovators, critical thinkers cognizant of the virtues of truthfulness, creativity, intellectual inquiry, and lifelong learning.

The Mathematics and Physics Department values knowledge, understanding, innovative thought, and the pursuit of wisdom. To these ends, the department strives to provide the services necessary to enable students to become:

• Aware of the Mathematics that exists in the world that surrounds them;
• Aware of the Physics that exists in the world that surrounds them;
• Skilled at expressing ideas using mathematical language, algorithms, and technological tools;
• Skilled at understanding and writing proofs;
• Able to adapt mathematical modes of reasoning to evaluate complex situations and structure a solution or model based on their analysis;
• Ethical and skilled decision-makers and problem-solvers who use their scientific skills for leadership, service, and civic responsibility;
• Independent thinkers, informed and enriched by education in the areas of Mathematics and physics as a science;
• Lifelong learners skilled in and adaptable to new information and technologies; and
• individuals who integrate their scientific skills within the spiritual, intellectual, civic, emotional and physical dimensions of their live.

The Department supports the mission of Technical University of Mombasa by developing and teaching courses, by conducting both individual and collaborative multidisciplinary research, and by participating in activities of the Technical University of Mombasa and the larger communities. 

The department services dominantly the school of engineering, Institute of Computing and other department that require the necessary mathematical skills. Each full-time member of the department is involved in a related research project.