As an key part of technical education, UPES includes programming as a subject in each of the Bachelor's and Master's programs in the College of Engineering Studies. But with the rise in need for a more sophisticated programming interface for scientists and technically qualified engineers, the languages C and C++ turn out to be inadequate in freedom of usage. For this reason, MATLAB and SciLab (an open-source software) have been developed; in order to cater to technical calculations involving numerous floating points, irrational expressions and in the end allowing for for graphic representations (pie charts, graphs, and tables).
Dr. Parag Mantri, a faculty member from the Department of Aerospace Engineering, UPES agreed to familiarize the students with MATLAB (for matrix laboratory) in a set of two workshops held on September 21 and November 26, 2010 for M. Tech students of COES.Student were allowed to access the software through wireless network and get to know the interface. After a brief class on matrices (which forms a basis for numerical methods), their representation, manipulation and solution, problems on various practical applications were solved. Further workshop are in the pipeline for course-specific applications and will be held in the coming semester.
