MATLAB Programming (An Ubiquitous Tool for Practicing Engineers)

MATLAB Programming (An Ubiquitous Tool for Practicing Engineers)

Coordinators:

Dr. P.S. Mayurappriyan, Professor, Department of EEE

Dr. S. Solai Manohar, Professor, Department of EEE

The Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering of KCG College of Technology has organized a Three Day Workshop on “MATLAB Programming (An Ubiquitous Tool for Practicing Engineers)” during 16-18, May 2017 (Tuesday – Wednesday) for the Officials of Solar Radiation Resource Assessment, National Institute of Wind Energy (NIWE) at their Conference Hall.  About 15 Engineers with Electrical, Electronics and Mechanical Engineering backgrounds attended the programme and got benefited. The Workshop is aimed to create awareness on the basics and fundamentals of MATLAB Programming. Being the first of its kind in this Workshop series, a wholesome lecture with hands on training to familiarise the MATLAB software techniques in the analysis of basic problems is provided.

Dr. G. Giridhar, Deputy Director General / Head (SRRA), GoI, MNRE, NIWE welcomed and inaugurated the workshop at 9.30 am. Dr. G. Sambandan / Advisor / Electrical Sciences and Dr. P. DeivaSundari, HOD / EEE of KCG College of Technology rendered their felicitations.

Dr. P. S. Mayurappriyan, Professor / EEE started his session after stating the objectives and significance of the programme. The contents of the programme are as follows:

• Introduction to MATLAB Programming
• Basic MATLAB Concepts
• Variables, Expressions and Statements
• Strings and File I/O
• Numbers and Arithmetic Operations
• Mathematical Built-in Functions
• Matrix Operations

The above session gave an outline about the fundamentals of MATLAB programming and the participants started working with the basic commands on command prompt.

The second session was handled by Mr. S. Balaji, Assistant Professor, Department of EEE with the following topics:

• M-Files and Workspace
• Path Browser
• User Defined function
• Array Operators
• Vector and Matrix Manipulations

After lunch break, the session was shared by Ms. J. Annes and Ms. M. AmmalDhanalakshmi, Assistant Professors of EEE Department to highlight the following topics:

• Relational and Logical Operations
• Control Flow (For Loops, While Loops, If-Else-End Construction)
• Solving Systems of Linear Equations
• Mathematical and Statistical Operations

Parallel Tutorials on selective topics with examples were conducted so that the participants gained hands on experience in programming techniques.

The second day (17.05.2017) started with a session on Plots and Graphics by Mr. S. Subash Chandra Bharathi, Assistant Professor of EEE Department with following topics:

• Plotting of Graphs
• 2 Dimensional Plotting
• Time Series Plotting
• Plotting a Function
• Plotting Tools
• GUI Development Environment
• 3D Graphics

The post lunch session handled by Dr. P.S. Mayurappriyan, Professor of EEE Department dealt with Importing / Exporting Data to / from Text files, EXCEL files, Clip Board Images, CSV files with examples.  He also explained the Techniques of Debugging with functions and examples.

The next session was handled by Dr. S. Solai Manohar, Professor of EEE Department on the Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) and its applications. He gave a brief presentation on the various architectures of ANN.

The entire forenoon session of Day 3 (18.05.2017) was dedicated to ANN application with MATLAB alongwith tutorials which was handled by Dr. S. Solai Manohar, Professor of EEE Department. The various doubts raised by the delegates have been cleared by him and some coding exercises were given to enhance their knowledge in this domain.

The afternoon session dealt with Tutorials and hands on experience in all the topics covered during the workshop and was handled by Dr. P.S. Mayurappriyan, Professor of EEE Department. The entire session was very interactive and the delegates have been demonstrated with various programs related to mathematical, logical, relational and statistical operations. The tutorial session created an interested in learning this software and they have been given an assignment that comprises of a set of creative questions for continuous learning process.

The workshop was ended with a feedback session by the delegates. In that they have expressed their interest and willingness in attending the next workshop of this series on SIMULINK and Model Based Design. They also stated that this Workshop gave them the basic knowledge and confidence in starting and programming MATLAB with script files for various operations. Dr. G. Giridhar thanked the KCG team for organising such a useful work in short intimation and expressed his interest in further academic and research collaborations. A group photo session has been arranged at the end before bidding farewell.

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE

Venue: NIWE Conference Room                                                                                 16^thMay, 2017

Venue: NIWE Conference Room                                                                         17^th May, 2017

Venue: NIWE Conference Room                                                                                18^th May, 2017