1. A Bridge Between Engineering and Mathematics Budi Rahardjo Sekolah Teknik Elektro dan Informatika br@paume.itb.ac.id 2007

2. Why such topic?

3. I am an engineer

4. I need maths!

5. …

6. We live in an exciting time

7. everything … business, daily lives

8. done through electronic means

9. ATM, cellphones, internet, …

10. They need 1 thing:

11. SECURITY

12. Encryption

13. They’re all MATH EQUATIONS!

14. How to efficiently implement them in software and hardware

15. Hardware is more difficult (limited resources)

16. “For any field to move ahead, researchers must try things even when they don’t quite know what they’re doing” (Bob Colwell, “All Things Are Connected,” IEEE Computer, November, 2004)

17. Engineers must have “higher standards”

18. “Maybe engineers are held to higher standards because they can be” (Bob Colwell, “All Things Are Connected,” IEEE Computer, November, 2004)

19. Engineers must understand maths

20. But we’re not getting it

21. We need “Maths for Engineers”

22. in what form?

23. Formal class (too much science?)

24. Books (stories of digital heroes who go interested in engineering because they read certain books)

25. Get together (mixing it up)

26. Other “bridge”???