Exploration and Practice of Matlab Course in Undergraduate Student of Science and Technology

Abstract

In order to improve the teaching quality of MATLAB course, this paper expounds the necessity for teaching MATLAB course in undergrade students of science and technology, and specially analyses the problems faced by the junior grade students when they are studying. Through the exploration and practice of MATALAB course teaching, this paper probes into the structure of course content, teaching content and teaching mode, and points out the concrete measures to teach MATLAB course in the junior students ofundergraduate. Necessity of MATLAB Course in Undergraduate StudentsMATLAB is a large-scale comprehensive software for scientific and engineering computing that integrates numerical calculation, symbolic calculation and visualization developed by MathWorks of the United States. It has a friendly working platform and programming environment, a simple and easy to use programming language, a strong scientific computing data processing capability, a color graphics processing function, a widely used module collection toolbox, and a practical program interface and platform, which are widely used in all walks of life. Because MATLAB is suitable for multi-subject and multi-work platform, it has the characteristics of powerful function, friendly interface, natural language and strong openness, it is recognized as accurate and reliable scientific standard software in international academic circle [1,2,3]. In the early 1990s, MATLAB became the preferred software for science majors in American, British, Canadian and Australian universities. In the design research unit and industrial department, MATLAB is considered as the first choice software tool for efficient research and development. Such as National Instruments'signal measurement and analysis software LABview, Cadence's signal and communication analysis and design software SPW, etc., are directly built on the MATLAB or supported by MATLAB[4]. In American and European universities, advanced courses such as linear algebra, numerical analysis, mathematical statistics, optimization methods, digital signal processing, electro-technical and electronic technology, modelling and dynamic system simulation all take MATLAB as a basic teaching content. At present, among the non-computer majors in science and engineering colleges in developed countries, the most popular programming languages are not C, BASIC, FORTRAN, but MATLAB. In our country, only master, doctor and some scientific researchers use MATLAB language at present, but the students of this specialty use less, most students have not used MATLAB [5]. Therefore, it is of great significance and function to popularize and apply MATLAB software to college students of science and technology in our Curriculum and Teaching Methodology (2022) Clausius Scientific Press, Canada