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Introduction to MATLAB - ELE00112M

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  • Department: Electronic Engineering
  • Module co-ordinator: Dr. Martin Robinson
  • Credit value: 10 credits
  • Credit level: M
  • Academic year of delivery: 2021-22
    • See module specification for other years: 2022-23

Module summary

Students are introduced to a powerful and versatile program that is widely used in science and engineering. Starting from basic functions such as simple data processing, they move rapidly on, through a series of laboratory exercises, to data plotting, complex numbers, linear algebra and statistics. Students are encouraged in these laboratories to experiment and to learn about the huge range of built-in functions that Matlab has to offer. They also get useful experience in programming techniques and in creating their own Matlab functions. Finally, for their individual assignment, they write Matlab code to analyse and synthesise signals for a real communications system.

Module will run

Occurrence Teaching period
A Autumn Term 2021-22

Module aims

Subject content aims:

  • To demonstrate how MATLAB can be used to solve a range of engineering problems

Graduate skills aims:

  • To introduce MATLAB as a tool for technical computing

Module learning outcomes

Subject content learning outcomes

After successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

  • Undertake arithmetic on scalars, vectors and matrices

  • Create 2D and 3D plots of mathematical functions and data

  • Carry out Monte-Carlo simulations

  • Solve a number of signal processing problems

Graduate skills learning outcomes

After successful completion of this module, students will be able to:

  • Write MATLAB functions and scripts to solve engineering problems

Module content

Through this module, you will learn about:

The MATLAB Environment; the command window; scalar arithmetic; formatting and rounding variables; further arithmetic operations; complex numbers; input/output operations; vector representation and manipulation; vector arithmetic; matrix representation and manipulation; matrix arithmetic; solutions to sets of linear equations; special matrices; symbolic computation; two dimensional (2D) plots; advanced 2D plotting; three dimensional (3D) plots; statistical functions; random numbers; writing functions; conditional statements; programming loops; laplace transforms; fourier series; fourier transforms.

Assessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Exercises		 N/A 100

Special assessment rules

None

Reassessment

Task Length % of module mark
Essay/coursework
Exercises		 N/A 100

Module feedback

 

'Feedback’ at a university level can be understood as any part of the learning process which is designed to guide your progress through your degree programme. We aim to help you reflect on your own learning and help you feel more clear about your progress through clarifying what is expected of you in both formative and summative assessments. A comprehensive guide to feedback and to forms of feedback is available in the Guide to Assessment Standards, Marking and Feedback. This can be found at https://www.york.ac.uk/students/studying/assessment-and-examination/guide-to-assessment/ The Department of Electronic Engineering aims to provide some form of feedback on all formative and summative assessments that are carried out during the degree programme. In general, feedback on any written work/assignments undertaken will be sufficient so as to indicate the nature of the changes needed in order to improve the work. Students are provided with their examination results within 20 working days of the end of any given examination period. The Department will also endeavour to return all coursework feedback within 20 working days of the submission deadline. The Department would normally expect to adhere to the times given, however, it is possible that exceptional circumstances may delay feedback. The Department will endeavour to keep such delays to a minimum. Please note that any marks released are subject to ratification by the Board of Examiners and Senate. Meetings at the start/end of each term provide you with an opportunity to discuss and reflect with your supervisor on your overall performance to date.

Indicative reading

* David McMahon - MATLAB Demystified - Prentice Hall

* Vinay K. Ingle and John G. Proakis - Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB - Cengage- Engineering; 2 edition (August 10, 2006)

++ Andr © Quinquis Digital Signal Processing Using Matlab (Hardcover) -Wiley-ISTE; 1 edition (April 4, 2008)


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