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MATLAB® Becomes the Tool of Choice Across Universities

A standard instructional tool for mathematics, engineering and science courses in universities, MATLAB® has rapidly become the tool of choice for high productivity research, development and analysis in industry.

MATLAB® is a high-performance language for technical computing that integrates computation, visualization and programming in an easy-to-use environment. It is a standard instructional tool for mathematics, engineering and science courses in universities and has rapidly become the tool of choice for high productivity research, development and analysis in industry.

This two-day hands-on workshop is designed for beginning and intermediate MATLAB users. No prior knowledge of MATLAB is required. Taught in WPI's Computing and Communications Center by Dr. Adriana Hera, the workshop includes topics such as working with matrices; plotting and visualization; scripts and user defined functions; basic statistics and data analysis, nonlinear fitting; and, solving differential equations. In addition, the course includes a variety of engineering and scientific problems solved using MATLAB.

 

September 30, 2009