×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Contact US

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Recommendations for Learning Matlab/Simulink

Recommendations for Learning Matlab/Simulink

Recommendations for Learning Matlab/Simulink

(OP)
Hi,

I have some previous experience of using Matlab and Simulink but I have never used it in force, I foresee an application in my workplace (creating dynamic models of systems with multiple gearboxes) whereby I will need to be quite proficient in these tools.

Can anyone with experience recommend any good books for getting to grips with Matlab and particularly Simulink.
I'm also interested in any recommended courses that I can attend bearing in mind I am based in the UK.

Thanks for you time.
Steve

RE: Recommendations for Learning Matlab/Simulink

Learning by doing is the best way, in my opinion. Doing some abstract problem as part of an exercise in a book is snooze-ville-ish, you have little interest, and little motivation. Doing a problem that you have to solve provides both. There are gobs of example scripts in the Mathworks website, and elsewhere on the web.

TTFN
FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies

Need help writing a question or understanding a reply? forum1529: Translation Assistance for Engineers

RE: Recommendations for Learning Matlab/Simulink

I highly recommend the Simulink training course, if your employers will pay for it. The one I did was called Simulink for system and algorithm modeling. It was 3 days and it was pretty tough work.

I've never understood training courses for programming languages, just get a decent reference book if you like and use google. That being said my code tends to be simple and short, mostly I'm just converting file formats and plotting, and a bit of signal analysis. I find the free Matlab seminars are fairly inspirational, even if they are a bit Holy Roller at times. The last one I went to had an hour on analysing ugly multi factor experiment data, it gave me some really good techniques. The latest gui looks great, but I'm stuck with 2009a which interestingly has many of the 'new' features but I didn't know they were there.

Cheers

Greg Locock


New here? Try reading these, they might help FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies http://eng-tips.com/market.cfm?

RE: Recommendations for Learning Matlab/Simulink

Hi !
I am new here, so excuse me if I am posting in the wrong thread.
I've used MathCAD for 10+ years up until 2005, and it was invaluable for system design.
I do embedded systems of all types, including software, firmware and hardware design.

I loved MathCAD for calculating whole system constraints, like for a robot involving electrical motors and mechanical lengths and tolerances, etc. And at the same time documenting design of the system, software size, and hardware circuits, like analog tolerances and noise. IE parameters that may not be easy to do in a SPICE-based EE IDE software.

But now I have to learn MatLab.
I have plenty of MatLAb resources and will learn it by doing- but it is not obvious like MathCAD was.

But, then, why is MathCAD still around ? Is it dying, or will it be totally replaced by MatLAb in the future?

Are they both equally useful for analysis of a system before designing the details ?
I guess Simulink and MatLab are the best now ?

Hope this is an interesting post !
Mike

RE: Recommendations for Learning Matlab/Simulink

Please refrain from hijacking other peoples' threads.

Mathcad and Matlab serve different purposes, and different users. People often use Mathcad to prototype problems before using Matlab to do the final coding. Mathcad provides complete and transparent support of units as well as symbolic math.

TTFN
FAQ731-376: Eng-Tips.com Forum Policies

Need help writing a question or understanding a reply? forum1529: Translation Assistance for Engineers

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members! Already a Member? Login


Resources

Low-Volume Rapid Injection Molding With 3D Printed Molds
Learn methods and guidelines for using stereolithography (SLA) 3D printed molds in the injection molding process to lower costs and lead time. Discover how this hybrid manufacturing process enables on-demand mold fabrication to quickly produce small batches of thermoplastic parts. Download Now
Design for Additive Manufacturing (DfAM)
Examine how the principles of DfAM upend many of the long-standing rules around manufacturability - allowing engineers and designers to place a part’s function at the center of their design considerations. Download Now
Taking Control of Engineering Documents
This ebook covers tips for creating and managing workflows, security best practices and protection of intellectual property, Cloud vs. on-premise software solutions, CAD file management, compliance, and more. Download Now

Close Box

Join Eng-Tips® Today!

Join your peers on the Internet's largest technical engineering professional community.
It's easy to join and it's free.

Here's Why Members Love Eng-Tips Forums:

Register now while it's still free!

Already a member? Close this window and log in.

Join Us             Close