The purpose of this paper is to present the experience to teach sophomore and senior students on the application of MATLAB in numerical analysis of engineering problems. MATLAB is a professional engineering and scientific software package developed and marketed by MathWorks, Inc. Many engineering schools now require and /or use MATLAB as one of their primary computing tools. The author taught MATLAB in course MEEN 1320 (Computer Based Graphics/Design II) in Texas A&M University -Kingsville in

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... ll 2005. The main objective of the course MEEN 1320 is to help sophomore students to solve basic engineering numerical problems and generate charts and graphs using MATLAB. This course is designed to give students opportunities for hands-on practice through the lab work and project studies. The author also instructed senior students to use MATLAB for experimental data analysis in course MEEN 4131 (Mechanical Engineering Laboratory). In this paper, these successful teaching experiences are summarized and some additional suggestion is also addressed.