Introduction to MATLAB ®

In the Fall 2011 term, I began teaching a 13-week "Introduction to MATLAB" course to a class of nearly 600 engineering freshmen at the Rutgers School of Engineering. The weekly powerpoint lecture notes, class notes, recitation exercises, homework sets, and other course resources are found below.

      Sophocles J. Orfanidis
      ECE Department
      Rutgers University
      orfanidi@ece.rutgers.edu

The course was based on the text: H. Moore, "MATLAB for Engineers," 4/e, Pearson, 2014.

Course materials for the Spring-2015 term:

• Syllabus
• Week 01 - Basics - variables, arrays, matrices, plotting
• Week 02 - Basics - operators, functions, strings, cells
• Week 03 - Matrices
• Week 04 - Plotting
• Week 05 - User-defined functions
• Week 06 - Input-output formatting
• Week 07 - Relational & logical operations
• Week 08 - Loops
• Week 09 - Review for weeks 5-8
• Week 10 - Matrix algebra
• Week 11 - Numerical methods I
• Week 12 - Numerical methods II
• Week 13 - Strings, cell arrays, structures, symbolic math
• Utility functions
• Various data files
• MATLAB Tutorials from Mathworks

The combined sets of homeworks and recitations are in the two PDF files below. Their solutions are to be found in each week's zip file.

• homeworks.pdf
• recitations.pdf

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