Introduction
I teach a course on engineering problem solving as part of an online Masters degree program. The program is called the Master of Engineering in Professional Practice (MEPP) and it is designed to help practicing engineers enhance technical and management skills.The course I teach uses Microsoft Excel and Matlab to build problem solving skills suitable for engineers. The videos below are used in some of the introductory lessons to make sure all students are prepared to apply these tools to typical engineering problems.
Some Written Materials
Matlab Videos
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Slide-Based Introduction to Matlab Download Slides (pdf)
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Demo of Using Matlab
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Solving Systems of Nonlinear Equations in Matlab - Get m-file
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Solving First Order Ordinary Differential Equations in Matlab
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Solving Parabolic Partial Differential Equations in Matlab - get script file
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Monte Carlo Simulations in Matlab Download Slides (pdf)
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Publishing Matlab results to html
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Building GUIs in Matlab with GUIDE - Download m-file and fig-file
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Importing Data into Matlab
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Solving Boundary Value Problems in Matlab
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Solving Second Order Initial Value Problems in Matlab
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Finding Eigenvalues of Second Order Differential Equations in Matlab - Download script or ppt slides
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Fast Fourier Transforms in Matlab
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Image Processing in Matlab
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Using Simulink to Solve Differential Equations Download Slides (pdf) Download mdl file
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Speeding Up Your Matlab Scripts (Performance)
Excel Videos
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Recording Macros for Excel
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Creating Functions in Excel with VBA - get Workbook
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Slide-Based Introduction to Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) in Excel Download Slides (pdf)
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Demo of Using VBA in Excel
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Creating GUI interfaces in Excel using VBA Download Slides (pdf) Download Spreadsheet (xls)
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Demo of Creating GUI interfaces in Excel using VBA
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Using the Solver in Excel
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Connecting Excel and Access Databases
Contact Information
- Jake Blanchard
- blanchard@engr.wisc.edu
- http://mepp.engr.wisc.edu