We will practice the following skills this semester.
Exposing you to the many techniques and capabilities in MATLAB will enhance your ability to use computing tools and languages to solve engineering problems
you encounter in your future academic and professional career.
Build programs to solve engineering problems
Use programming operations to calculate solutions
Determine better and more accurate solutions
Perform and evaluate algebraic and trigonometric operations using built-in functions
Assign and manage variables
Manipulate vectors and matrices, use matrix indexing, and determine matrix dimensions
Generate linearly spaced vectors
Create and execute a script
Create and evaluate x-y plots and subplots suitable for technical presentation
Create, test, and execute user-defined functions and sub-functions
Create function input validation
Distinguish between the different MATLAB ‘data types’
Create and manipulate Structures and Arrays
Perform and evaluate relational and logical operations
Load, analyze, and manipulate images
Obtain and utilize user input
Manage and format text output
Import and export numeric data using other filetypes (e.g. .csv, .xls, and .txt)
Perform polynomial curve-fitting, general curve fitting, and interpolation
Perform numeric and symbolic differentiation and integration
Solve non-linear systems of equations
Solve numeric ODE’s
Build a block diagram in Simulink to perform an operation
Perform numerical optimization
Analyze Signals
Apply proper MATLAB conventions and good programming practices
Note: To meet this objective, you are required to submit WORKING programs on your exams.
Utilize debugging techniques: isolate and test sections of a program, suppress or display intermediate operations, write debuggable code, and trace variables to locate errors
Utilize proper techniques and conventions to manipulate data and name files and variables
Employ effective and consistent commenting and logical organization to communicate your objective, method, and results
Implement basic techniques to increase code efficiency: reuse components where possible, remove redundancy (DIE: duplication is evil), and anticipate errors to minimize risk for error
Manipulate and control devices in team-based programming design projects
Demonstrate initiative to self-learn how to use computer based tools/devices
Demonstrate innovation and creativity in your approach to solve complex problems
Implement your coding skills to acquire sensor data and program an autonomous response
Deliver a successful product
Demonstrate successful teamwork
Demonstrate effective technical communication to present the details of a project