Instructor:  Prof. Tad W. Patzek 

Spring 2006, Monday-Wednesday, 2040 Valley LSB, 12-1 pm

Office hours: 

Wednesdays 2 - 4  pm, 425 Davis, 
Friday 10-12 am 544 Davis (jointly with Prof. Sengupta)

Two hours of lecture, one hour of discussion, and four hours of laboratory per week. 

Course Textbook: Introduction to MATLAB 7 for Engineers, by William J. Palm III, McGraw Hill, Boston, 2005

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Prerequisites: Mathematics 1B  

Brief course description: Elements of procedural programming. Induction, iteration, and recursion. Real functions and floating-point computations. Introduction to  data structures. Representative examples are drawn from elementary algebra,  calculus and geometry. The course uses the MATLAB programming language.  

Sponsoring Department: Civil and Environmental Engineering