EGR 106

Course Goals: To introduce engineering problem solving methods and the computer tool MATLAB - a widely used
engineering/scientific software package with excellent computational, programmable and graphics features.
Instructor: Professor Martin Sadd, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics, 208WalesHall, 874-5548,
sadd@egr.uri.edu, Office Hours: TR 9-11am or by appointment.
Textbook: MATLAB An Introduction with Applications (Third Ed.) by A. Gilat, Wiley 2008.
Lecture Attendance: You are expected to be present for all lectures and attendance will be taken.
Details on homework, quizzes, grading, etc. will be provided in each individual 75-minute lecture section as listed below:

Time	Tuesday	Thursday
8:00-9:15	Prof. Brown	Prof. Brown
9:30-10:45	Prof. Hunter	Prof. Hunter
12:30-1:45	Prof. Kumaresan	Prof. Kumaresan
2:00-3:15	Prof. Taggart	Prof. Taggart
3:30-4:45	Prof. Hu	Prof. Hu

Lectures	Dates	Topics	Text Sections	Download Material
1	Jan 26,27	Introduction to EGR 106 & MATLAB	1.1 - 1.7	Lecture 1
2	Feb 2,3	Intro to Scripts, Array Creation	1.8, 1.9, 2.1 -2.3	Lecture 2 init_sound.m , sound_in.m , HW2_sample.m
3	Feb 9,10	Array Manipulation	2.4 - 2.10	Lecture 3 rotate_colormap.m , A2Z.mat
4	Feb 17,18	Array Mathematics	3.1 -3.8	Lecture 4 , Lec4.m
5	Feb 23,24	MATLAB's Editor, Scripts, I/O	4.1 - 4.5	Lecture 5 , Lec5.m
6	March 2,3	Snow Cancellation	-	Quiz2 Review
7	March 9,10	2-D Plotting	5.1, 5.3 - 5.12	Lecture 6 , Lec6.m
8	March 23,24	Relational, Logical, Conditional, Commands	7.1 - 7.3	Lecture 7 , Lec7.m
9	March 30,31	Loop Commands	7.4 - 7.6	Lecture 8 , Lec8.m , Quiz3 Review
10	April 6,7	Function Programs	6.1 - 6.7	Lecture 9, Lec9.m
11	April 13,14	Polynomials, Curve Fitting, Interpolation	8.1 - 8.4	Lecture 10 , Lec10.m , Quiz4 Review
12	April 20,21	Three-Dimensional Plotting	9.1 - 9.3	Lecture 11 , Lec11.m
13	April 27,28	Overview of MATLAB Applications	-	Lecture 12

Academic Integrity: According to URI's policy on academic integrity, "cheating is the claiming of credit for work not
done independently." While group study is generally encouraged in this course, each student is expected to submit work
that they have developed on their own. Submission of duplicate copies of MATLAB code is not acceptable.

Disability Issues: Any student with a documented disability is welcomed to request accommodations and should
contact their instructor as soon as possible. For more information, contact Disability Services for Students Office
(874-2098) www.uri.edu/disability_services

Important Course Evaluations:
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Survey results are important to help evaluated teaching and improve instruction. Ratings will be most helpful to the instructor and the institution if your answers are fair, thoughtful and honest. You should answer all the questions even if some do not seem directly relevant to the course. Instructors are not expected to do well on every item and those not related to the course are not counted in the final evaluation. Finally, your responses are kept completely confidential by the IDEA Center in Kansas. Reports to instructors are based only on aggregated data.

Date	Topics	Locations
Wednesday 2/18 (URI Monday)	Basic Matlab Commands; Array Creation & Manipulation	Edwards
Tuesday 3/10	Scripts, Array Math	Edwards
Wednesday 4/1	Scripts, 2-D Plotting, Relational, Logical, Conditional, Commands	Brown, Hunter, Taggart: Edwards Kumaresan: Quinn Aud. Hu: Pastore Aud.
Tuesday 4/21	Loops, Function Programming	Brown, Hunter, Taggart: Edwards Kumaresan: Quinn Aud. Hu: Pastore Aud.