Using MATLAB to Teach Programming to First-Year Engineering Students at Boston University

By Dr. Stormy Attaway, Boston University
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In the 20 years that I’ve been teaching Introduction to Engineering Computation, we’ve used several different languages, including Pascal, Fortran, C, and C++, but the course remained fundamentally unchanged until recently, when an engineering faculty task force met to rethink the course objectives.

Faculty from the electrical and computer engineering department initiated the change, telling the committee that they would like all students to learn the basic programming concepts using MATLAB^® so that students could then effectively use MATLAB in their upper-level courses and beyond.
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