Introduction to Computational Engineering with MATLAB®

Introduction to Computational Engineering with MATLAB® aims to teach readers how to use MATLAB programming to solve numerical engineering problems. The book focuses on computational engineering with the objective of helping engineering students improve their numerical problem-solving skills.

Tim Bower is a Professor of Robotics and Automation Engineering Technology and Computer Systems Technology at Kansas State University, Salina. He received the B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University (K-State) in 1987 and the M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Kansas in 1990. He was a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at Sprint's Local Telephone Division from 1989 to 1998. From 1998 to 2003, he was a systems administration manager and instructor while taking graduate coursework in Computer Science at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas. He joined the faculty at K-State's Salina campus in 2004. He teaches undergraduate courses related to programming in C, Python, and \MATLAB, robotics programming, machine vision, numerical computation, operating systems, data structures and algorithms, and systems administration. He is the recipient of the 2015 and 2016 Excellence in Innovation Award, and the 2025 Marchbanks Memorial Award for Teaching Excellence.