MATLAB Resources

ECE Departmental Policy

The Bagley College of Engineering's Computer Initiative requires each student to have his or her own personal computer. As part of the ECE department's implementation of the Computer Initiative, students are further required to own the Matlab Student Version by Mathworks, Inc. The Matlab Student Version comes with the Symbolic Math Toolbox and Simulink; as the students progress through the curriculum, classes that need other Matlab toolboxes will formally require them to be purchased. The Matlab Student Version and toolboxes may be purchased through the Mathworks website at http://www.mathworks.com/products/studentversion.

Note that, in the past, Prentice Hall has sold a product called The Student Edition of Matlab. This product is not compatible with the ECE curriculum as it suffers from array-size limitations and allows no adding-on of toolboxes. Be sure you obtain the correct software from Mathworks rather this other package.

General Information

• The Mathworks Web site, from the creators of MATLAB.

Learning Matlab

• Books
  • William J. Palm, III, Introduction to Matlab 7 for Engineers, 2nd ed., McGraw-Hill, Boston, MA, 2003. ISBN: 0072922427.
  • Rudra Pratap, Getting Started with Matlab 7, Oxford University Press, New York, 2006. ISBN: 0-19-517937-4.
  • Stephen J. Chapman, Essentials of Matlab Programming, Thomson Nelson, Toronto, Canada, 2006. ISBN: 0-495-07300-8.

• Tutorials
  • Online tutorial from Mathworks.
  • Online tutorial designed as a companion to Fundamentals of Signals and Systems Using the Web and Matlab, the book by Kamen and Heck.

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