Thanks, @ucbalumnus, always appreciate your posts as well. How could we know whether a course uses MATLAB if it’s not in the catalog description? Email the community college prof? Or is there a good course high school students take outside of school that does feature computing for engineering with MATLAB?
I ask because the parent of one female student mentioned that she didn’t have programming experience before attending her engineering program, and was behind other students, because she had to learn programming on the fly while taking courses that assumed programming experience. Sounds awful to me and this is a situation that I want my kid to not be in. Engineering courses are hard enough without missing an essential experience needed to suceed.