1. Computer Application in Engineering Design
Lecture No 01
Engr. Aamir Arsalan

2. Course Information
Instructor: Engr. Aamir Arsalan Lab Engineer, Department of Computer Engineering, University of Engineering and Technology Taxila, Pakistan Contact Hours: Computing Lab, Ground Floor, CPED Monday from 12:00-13:00 and 14:00-15:00 hrs.

3. Nuts and Bolts Prerequisites: Computer Programming
Class Mailing List: Provide your Name, Registration No. and

4. Course Policies
Grading: •  Assignments 10% •  Quizzes 10% •  Midterm Exam 30% •  Final Exam 50% •  Exams: •  Exams must be taken at scheduled time, no makeup exams •  Class Tasks: •  Bring your laptops along with you when coming for class.

5. Policies
•  Assignments: •  Assigned this week, due following week before class time. •  Assignments lose 25% credit per day late •  Up to 3 students can collaborate and turn in one written assignment •  Collaboration means all collaborators work out all problems together.
•  Attendance: •  75% attendance is must for this course •  If attendance < 75% you are not allowed in exams

6. MATLAB MATLAB is a high-level language.
MATLAB has an interactive environment.
Computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.

7. Key Features High-level language for technical computing
Development environment for managing code, files, and data
Interactive tools for design and problem solving
Mathematical functions for linear algebra, statistics, Fourier analysis, filtering, optimization, and numerical integration
2-D and 3-D graphics functions for visualizing data
Tools for building custom graphical user interfaces
Functions for integrating MATLAB based algorithms with external applications and languages, such as C, C++, Fortran, Java, COM, and Microsoft® Excel®

8. MATLAB Desktop

9. MATLAB Desktop The desktop includes these panels:
Current Folder — Access your files.
Command Window — Enter commands at the command line, indicated by the prompt (>>).
Workspace — Explore data that you create or import from files.
Command History — View or rerun commands that you entered at the command line.

10. Command Window

11. Command History

12. Workspace

13. Current Folder

14. Basics of MATLAB Array Creation Row Vector Creation
Column Vector Creation
Matrix Creation
Matrix and Array Operations
Array Indexing

15. Basic MATLAB Commands Few basic MATLAB Commands. clc clear ones zeros
eye
whos
lookfor

16. Basic MATLAB Commands Few basic MATLAB Commands. help rand magic max
min
plot
length

17. Basic MATLAB Commands
Few basic MATLAB Commands.
disp
mean
std

18. Thank You!!! 