The course provides a gentle introduction to the MATLAB computing environment, and is intended for beginning users. It is designed to give students a basic understanding of MATLAB, including popular toolboxes.

It presents engineering and scientific problem solving techniques used for mathematical computations, algorithm development, modeling and simulation, data analysis, scientific and engineering graphics, and application development. MATLAB utilizes various toolboxes such as symbolic math, signal processing, control systems, MATLAB C math library, and MATLAB compiler to facilitate the solving of many technical computing problems.