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Sathyabama Institute of Science and Technology LL.B - LL.B SECA4001 Software Tools for Engineering Applications Syllabus

SATHYABAMA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

SECA4001 SOFTWARE TOOLS FOR ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
L T P Credits Total Marks
3 0 0 3 100

UNIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO MATLAB 9 Hrs.
Introduction To Matlab software-basic Features- Introduction to programming in MATLAB-M-File- Scripts-Input-Output
commands - Creation and overwriting of Variables- Data types –Arithmetic, Relational & Logical operations - Example
programs for operations- precedence of operators -Matrix generation and matrix arithmetic operation- Transposing a matrix -
Concatenating matrices -Array Initialization and array arithmetic operations-Examples for Solving linear equations-
Functions - User defined functions - passing arguments - using functions with vectors and matrices- cell arrays & structures -
Strings - comparing - Concatenation.

UNIT 2 LOOPS AND CONTROL STATEMENTS 9 Hrs.
Control Flow & Decision statements- IF - IF ELSE - NESTED IF ELSE - SWITCH - TRY & CATCH - FOR -WHILE - NESTED
FOR - FOR with IF statements, MATLAB program organization, Debugging methods- Setting and running with breakpoints –
Examining values-Correcting and ending debugging, Example programs using the above commands. MISCELLANEOUS
TOPICS: Date & Time Functions, Time Computations, File & Directory management.

UNIT 3 PLOTS IN MATLAB AND GUI 9 Hrs.
Basic 2D plots, Parametric & Implicit plots, subplot, LOG, LOG-LOG, SEMILOG-POLAR-COMET, exporting figures, HOLD,
STEM, BAR, HIST, Interactive plotting, , axis labels, and annotations, Specifying line styles and colors, 3D plots – Mesh
Surface- Contour –Plots with special graphics, View command, Plotting file data, Plotting from a function, GUI – Event based
user interfaces, Matlab GUIDE, call back function, GUI controls, Example programs.

UNIT 4 ADVANCED MATHEMATICS APPLICATIONS 9 Hrs.
Fitting Curves to Data -Polynomials, Addition, multiplication and division of polynomials, Roots and derivative of a
polynomial, curve fitting, polyfit, Interpolation, Extrapolation, Least squares, basic fitting interface, Complex Numbers,
Adding , Subtracting and Multiplying Complex Numbers, Integration and Differentiation, Trapezoidal Rule, Calculus in
Symbolic Math Toolbox.

UNIT 5 SIMULINK AND MATLAB APPLICATIONS 9 Hrs.
Simulink- Introduction, Block setting, Model annotation, solver, sinks library, sources, math operations library, user defined
functions and look up table in Simulink, ports and subsystems, masked sub system, program controls in Simulink: FOR,
WHILE, IF, CASE, Signal routing and logical’s, Exporting Simulink data to Matlab, Applications –Modelling of a simple PID
controller using SIMULINK, Plotting the Frequency response of FIR & IIR filters using MATLAB.
Max. 45 Hrs.

COURSE OUTCOMES
On completion of the course, student will be able to
CO1 - Recall and recollect the basic programming fundamentals
CO2 - Understand various array arithmetic procedures
CO3 - Analyze and develop different control structures using MATLAB
CO4 - Evaluate different interactive plotting methods
CO5 - Identify the need for GUI based operations for real time programming.
CO6 - Design and demonstrate applications based on communication systems, controllers etc.

TEXT / REFERENCE BOOKS
1 William J. Palm III, “Introduction to MATLAB for Engineers”, 3rd Edition,McGraw Hill Publications,2012.
2 Bansal R.K, Goel A.K., Sharma M.K., “MATLAB and its Applications in Engineering”, Pearson Education, 2012
3 Amos Gilat, “MATLAB-An Introduction with Applications”, Wiley India, 2009. .
4 Stephen.J.Chapman, “Programming in MATLAB for Engineers”, Cengage Learning, 2011.
5 Robert Schilling & Sandra L.Harris, “Introduction to Digital Signal Processing using Matlab”, Cengage Learning,2014.
6 Cesar Perez Lopez, “Matlab Programming for Numerical Analysis”, Springer Publications, 2014

END SEMESTER EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER PATTERN
Max. Marks: 100 Exam Duration: 3 Hrs.
PART A: 10 questions of 2 marks each - No choice 20 Marks
PART B: 2 questions from each unit of internal choice, each carrying 16 marks 80 Marks