“Introduction to MATLAB for Engineering Students” is a document for an introductory course in MATLAB R 1 and technical computing. It is used for freshmen classes at North-western university. This document is not a comprehensive introduction or a reference manual. Instead, it focuses on the specific features of MATLAB that are useful forengineering classes. The lab sessions are used with one main goal: to allow students to become familiar with computer software (e.g., MATLAB) to solve application problems. We assume that the students have no prior experience with MATLAB.The availability of technical computing environment such as MATLAB is now reshaping the role and applications of computer laboratory projects to involve students in more intense problem-solving experience. This availability also provides an opportunity to easily conduct numerical experiments and to tackle realistic and more complicated problems.Originally, the manual is divided into computer laboratory sessions (labs). The lab document is designed to be used by the students while working at the computer. The emphasis here is “learning by doing”. This quiz-like session is supposed to be fully completed in 50 minutes in class.The seven lab sessions include not only the basic concepts of MATLAB, but also an introduction to scientific computing, in which they will be useful for the upcomingengineering courses. In addition, engineering students will see MATLAB in their other courses.The end of this document contains two useful sections: a Glossary which contains the brief summary of the commands and built-in functions as well as a collection of release notes.The release notes, which include several new features of the Release 14 with Service Pack2, well known as R14SP2, can also be found in Appendix. All of the MATLAB commands have been tested to take advantage with new features of the current version of MATLAB available here at Northwestern (R14SP2). Although, most of the examples and exercises still work with previous releases as well.This manual reflects the ongoing effort of the McCormick school of engineering and Applied Science leading by Dean Stephen Carr to institute a significant technical computing in the Engineering First R 2 courses taught at Northwestern University.Finally, the students – Engineering Analysis (EA) Section – deserve my special gratitude. They were very active participants in class.
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