Course Objectives - Learning Outcomes

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.

1. 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
   
   
   

2. 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

   
   
   
   

3. 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