Matlab

Course delivery dates

Please note this short course runs on the following dates: 17 June - 21 June 2013.

Each day starts at 9.00am and finishes at 4.00pm and is held in the Energus Building, Workington, CA14 4JW.

Why study with us?

MATLAB® is an interactive environment for numerical computation, visualisation, and programming. You can use MATLAB®, to analyse data, develop algorithms, and create simulation models and applications.

Do you need to solve engineering problems? Are spreadsheets below the capacity required and programming languages too cumbersome? MATLAB® will provide the answers you are looking for. This MATLAB® course will help you develop the knowledge and skills to solve those engineering problems.

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Entry requirements See course specific entry requirements listed below. Selection criteria

This course is for engineers, industry researchers, students or for anyone new to MATLAB® wishing to develop their own knowledge. No previous knowledge of MATLAB® is needed.

Course requirements

• Basic computer operation skills
• Applicants must have an understanding of mathematics (University Level 4 and 5)

Course summary

This course is divided into two parts-fundamentals and advanced over five days. You can register for the full course or individual days.

*For the advanced training courses in Days 3, 4 and 5, fundamentals are essential.

Day 1 fundamentals

Quick Start in MATLAB®

General introduction and demons of MATLAB®, including

• Leaning main features of MATLAB®
• Knowing the desktop basics
• Matrices and Arrays
• 2-D and 3-D plots
• Programming and Scripts
• Getting help and documentation

Language fundamentals of MATLAB®

Introduce the MATLAB® language basics, including

• Generating matrices and matrices operations
• Numbers, variables and expression
• Arrays and arrays operations
• Entering commands
• Data types and indexing

Day 2 fundamentals

Mathematics Functions of MATLAB®

Introduce basic mathematics application functions, including

• Calculus (limit, diff, int)
• Solving systems of linear equations
• Function handles and Zero finding
• Importing and handling of data
• Polynomial Regression
• General Linear Regression

Graphics Functions of MATLAB®

Introduce basic plotting functions, including

• Creating a plot
• Plotting multiple data sets in one graph
• Choosing line styles and colours
• Plotting lines and Markers
• 3D surface plot
• Exporting Graphics

Day 3 advanced

MATLAB® Programming Method and Skill

Introduce basic MATLAB® program structures and control flow.

• Conditional control (if, else, switch)
• Loop control (for ,while, continue, break)
• Program termination (return)
• programming skills (vectorization)

Introduce two fundamental programming methods: Scripts and Functions.

• Creating a script program
• Writing a function
• Calling a function
• File I/O operations
• Programming debugging

Day 4 advanced

Simulink and control engineering application

Introduce Simulink system simulation environment, including

• Simulink operation fundamentals
• System simulation models
• System simulation operations

Control Engineering Applications:

• Feedback control
• Laplace transform
• DC motor control: position and speed control (Proportional control, PI control, PID control)

Day 5 advanced

Symbolic Tool Box and MuPad application

Introduce symbolic objects and basic symbolic operation functions, including

• Symbolic constants and definition
• Symbolic variables and definition
• Symbolic calculus (limit, diff, int)
• Solving symbolic equations (solve)
• Series (symsum, taylor)

Introduce interactive symbolic operation application --- Mupad and combination of Mupad & MATLAB® programming.

• Introduction to Mupad
• Basic application of Mupad (diff, int, limit, solve)
• Mupad plot
• Combination of Mupad & MATLAB® programming

Course delivery

• Short introductions and demonstrations (with notes)
• Tutorials – application examples (with tutorial notes and trainer’s support)
• Exercises – application examples (with trainer’s support: to help you to master the skills using MATLAB® for engineering problem solving)

Costs

You can register for the full course or individual days.

• Any one day £150
• For the two days of the fundamentals course £250
• For any two days of the advanced course £280
• For the three days of the advanced course £400
• For the five days of the course £600

*Full time University of Cumbria students will receive a 10% discount on the cost of this course.

The fee includes tutorials notes, tea, coffee and lunches.

Additional contact information

For all short course/event enquiries, please contact:

Tel: 01524 385453
Email: scep@cumbria.ac.uk