Elementary course plan for MATLAB for Engineers

Session #	Title of session	Brief Description	Expected Duration (hrs)
Sess.-1	An overview of MATLAB	This session devoted to MATLAB basics like various types of windows, symbols, commonly used commands, various Formats available, mediocre arithmetic operations along with their operations, engineering programming approach with programs and simple programming exercises follows.	6(4 for illustrations & 2 for discussions with students)
Sess.- 1.1	Intro to MATLAB programming	Review of session 1 with few more illustrations and exercises so as to build up a robust foundation for a naïve programmer	3 to 4 depending on the understanding of the students.
Sess.- 2	Fundamentals of MATLAB programming	In this session fundamentals required for programming like variables, useful commands, arrays & their syntax matrices, arithmetic operations, relational operators, logical operators & operator precedence will be demonstrated. Further we will discuss about MATLAB graphics (2D & 3D plots), Branching & looping functions, Input & Output functions along with detailed programming problems.	6 (4 for discussions and illustrations & 2 for programming exercises)
Sess.- 3	Numeric cells & Structured Arrays	This session deals with Vectors, creating Arrays & Matrices, array addressing, multi-dimensional arrays, array operations, special Matrices, polynomials, structure functions & illustrative examples	4
Sess. 4	Programming structure	In this session algorithms & control structures, structured programming, step for developing a computer solution, Documenting with charts, flow chart representation for various statements, pseudo codes, finding bugs, operators, strings and conditional statements are discussed.	4
Sess. 5	Fundamentals of Simulink	This session is devoted to fundamentals of Simulink and covers: Introduction to Simulink, frequently used blocks, Configuration parameters, various blocks and their description, power system simulation blockset and simulation projects.	6 (4 for discussion and 2 for illustration)
Sess. 6	Applications of Basic Electrical Engineering	Elementary definitions, Basic waveforms, average, rms & peak values, Ohm’s law, KCL, KVL, Dependant sources, Series/parallel circuits, Superposition, Reciprocity, Thevenin’s, Maximum power transfer theorems, Types of powers and Simulation projects	6
Sess. 7	Simulation of Rectifiers	This session deals with power electronic Rectifiers. It contains introduction, performance parameters, controlled & uncontrolled switches, different types of rectifiers with various loads and their analysis and Simulation projects.	6
Sess. 8	Review & brainstorming	This review and brainstorming session for setting up the things learned by you so far. One or two projects might be discussed.	2