<p>I’m in the College of Engineering as a biomed major, and I’m taking this class as a practical introduction. The class description didn’t tell me much, so I bought the required textbook, “Matlab: A practical introduction to programming and problem solving”, and I notcied that most of it concerns itself with computing, basic computer functions, looping, algorithms, matrices…etc.</p>
<p>I’m a bit concerned as a biomed major. Has anyone here taken this class, and if so, could you tell me more about the content and material covered?</p>
<p>It’s part of the required engineering curriculum, regardless of which engineering major you are. They try to give you a taste of every branch of engineering before you delve deep into your biomed major so you have a chance to switch to another engineering discipline if one interests you</p>
<p>It is a very watered down programming course only intended to give you basic knowledge of programming concepts. From my personal experience and many of my friends’ experiences the class was not difficult at all. In order to get a good grade you had to show up to class, since they take attendance, do lab work, projects and do well on the tests (which are open book). The projects are probably the most difficult but the teacher’s assistant basically guide you through it as long as you ask a lot of questions. As an engineering major you should have decent skills in creating algorithms and you really should not have that many problems.</p>
<p>Yeah make sure you show up to class and labs regularly… absolutely necessary… I got 95s on all my exams but missed classes… got a C+…</p>
<p>It should be an easy A. The exams are ALL open book in EK 127. For Projects you will be able to do them, if not ask a TF they are glad to help you! If possible when doing projects try to ask the Graduate Students first they are SO much more helpful than the sophomores/juniors who TF for the class.</p>