MatLab and Structural Engineering

[NattyDread]

Hey Everybody,

I must say this first off, I currently suck at MatLab and am in the process of teaching myself this summer (as sad as that may sound). The reason I am doing this is I am worried that I will need it a lot in graduate school. So I was wondering about other people's experience with MATLab in grad school, preferrably in civil engineering. Any feedback would be appreciated, thanks. :mrgreen:

[whitemud]

I am in Electrical Engineering, so this may not apply to you.

On days when I'm not in the lab, my morning goes: Turn on computer, open firefox, open matlab. I could not survive without matlab, it is how I (quickly) process all of my data and start all of my theory-based research. I view it as a big-giant calculator that does all of the hard work for me.