Programming and Engineering Computing with MATLAB

Huei-Huang Lee Department of Engineering Science

National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

National Cheng Kung University

SDC Publications, USA, 2017

ISBN 978-1-63057-140-5

ISBN 978-1-63056-399-8 (eBook)

Abstract

Skills of programming and engineering computing are crucial for engineering students to become successful in their future career. MATLAB provides not only programming constructs but also engineering computing capabilities. The engineering computing capabilities include data visualization, linear/nonlinear equations solving, differential equations solving, image processing, symbolic mathematics, graphical user-interface design, etc. These are must-know skills for the engineers right now and in the future. As a software development platform, MATLAB is friendly enough for junior engineering students. It is also an efficient tool for use in the first course to learn programming and engineering computing skills. The book was written based on these realizations. There are 15 chapters in the book:

1. Getting Started, Desktop Environment, and Overview
2. Data Types, Operators, and Expressions
3. Flow Controls, Functions, and Programs
4. Cell Arrays, Structures, Tables, and User-Defined Classes
5. Data Visualization: Plots
6. Animations, Images, Audios, and Videos
7. Data Import and Export
8. Graphical User Interfaces
9. Symbolic Mathematics
10. Linear Algebra, Polynomial, Curve Fitting, and Interpolation
11. Differentiation, Integration, and Differential Equations
12. Nonlinear Equations and Optimization
13. Statistics

Since the software is updated every year, the book will be updated once a year accordingly, to include the up-to-date features of MATLAB. The book was first published in 2016 and has been adopted by many university professors in the United States. In terms of sales, it is one the top 10 books among 1500 books related to MATLAB.