What Every Engineer Should Know About Excel Paperback

by J. P. Holman, Blake K. Holman

Part of the What Every Engineer Should Know series

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With the many software packages available today, it's easy to overlook the computational and graphics capabilities offered by Microsoft (R) Excel (TM).

The software is nearly ubiquitous and understanding its capabilities is an enormous benefit to engineers in almost any field and at all levels of experience.

What Every Engineer Should Know About Excel offers in nine self-contained chapters a practical guide to the features and functions that can be used, for example, to solve equations and systems of equations, build charts and graphs, create line drawings, and perform optimizations.

The author uses examples and screenshots to walk you through the steps and build a strong understanding of the material. With this book, you will learn how to... Set up the keyboard for direct entry of most math and Greek symbolsBuild a default scatter graph that is applicable to most simple presentations with little cosmetic modificationApply many types of formats to adjust the cosmetics of graphsUse 3D surface and area charts for data and functional representations, with associated cosmetic adjustmentsCorrelate data with various types of functional relationsUse line drawing tools to construct simple schematics or other diagramsSolve linear and nonlinear sets of equations using multiple methodsCurve student grades using Excel probability functionsModel device performance using different types of regression analysis involving multiple variablesManipulate Excel financial functionsCalculate retirement accumulation with variable contribution rate and retirement payouts to match increases in inflationApply Excel methods for optimization problems with both linear and nonlinear relationsUse pivot tables to manipulate both experimental data and analytical relationshipsCalculate experimental uncertainties using ExcelAnd much more!