Because programming has become an essential component of engineering, medicine, media, business,
finance, and many other fields, it is important for engineers and practitioners to have a basic foundation
in programming to be competitive. This book introduces programming to students from a wide
range of backgrounds and gives them programming and mathematical tools that will be useful to them
throughout their careers
Teach MATLAB programming to engineering students who do not have prior exposure to
programming.
Introduce a variety of numerical analysis tools that are useful for solving engineering problems