Case Study: The Citadel — The Military College of South Carolina achieves 50% time savings and reduced math errors in engineering education with PTC Mathcad (PTC)

The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina - Customer Case Study

The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina needed an engineering calculation tool to teach programming principles, help students avoid common math errors, and provide a broad-based civil engineering education for both cadets and evening students. They turned to PTC and its PTC Mathcad software to introduce programming-friendly worksheets that reinforce concepts while preventing unit and algebra mistakes.

PTC deployed PTC Mathcad, which enables multi-step functions directly on worksheets and manages units and algebra to reduce "dumbthumbing" errors; students saved about 50% of the time on calculations and experienced a reduced error rate. As a result, Citadel students focus more on problem solving, can document their work clearly, find PTC Mathcad easy to use, and are better prepared for industry or graduate school.

The Citadel - The Military College of South Carolina

John Murden

Ph.D., Civil and Environmental Engineering Department