Prerequisite ()

Term Offered: First and Second Semester

The course is lectured for undergraduate students of chemical engineering.

MATLAB (Matrix Laboratory) is one of most powerful engineering softwares. It developed by MathWorks company and uses different professional toolboxes to do different numerical and analytical computations as well as powerful tools to showing two and three- dimensional graphics.

Contents:

1-      MATLAB Specifications

2-      Arrays

3-      Functions and Matrice Operations

4-      Logical and Relational Operators

5-      Character String Functions

6-      MATLAB Programming

7-      Curve Fitting, Polynomial and Interpolation Functions

8-      Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE)

9-      Two and Three- Dimensional Graphics

10-  Symbolic Math Toolbox  

Reading Resources:

1-      “An Engineer’s Guide to MATLAB” by E. B. Magrab, S. Azarm, B. Balachandran, J. Duncan, K. Herold and G. Walsh, Prentice Hall, 2000

2-      “Engineering Problem Solving With MATLAB” by D. M. Etter, Prentice Hall, 1997

Assessment Tools:

-          Weekly homeworks

-          Quizzes

-          2 Computer projects

-          Final Examination

Grading Policy:

-          Homeworks (10/100)

-          Quizzes (10/100)

-          Computer projects (30/100)

-          Final Exam (50/100)