Instructor:  Prof. Tad W. Patzek 

Fall 2002, Monday-Wednesday, 4 LeConte, 1-2 pm

Office hours: 

Tuesday 2-4  pm, 437 Davis, 
Friday 12-2 pm 212 O'Brien (seats 50, computer projector)

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

Course Textbook: Introduction to MATLAB 6.5 for Engineers, by William J. Palm III, McGraw Hill, Boston, 2002

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Prerequisites: Mathematics 1A (may be taken  concurrently). 

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