General Files
These files should be useful to all students, with some particularly useful for first year engineering students (since we all take a common first year program). Please let me know if there are any broken links or if you need help with a particular file.
- GPA Calculator The GPA Calculator (for first year students, and it's really nothing more than an Excel file with preset formulas) was created during my tenure as the VP Academic of the First Year Engineering Club; it was designed to aid first year student in the derivation of their GPAs. Please note that the program is not accurate; I've had people tell me that it tends to be lower by 0.1, and that applied to me as well. If you manage to catch my mistake, I'll really appreciate it if you could let me know what it is and I can fix it - credit will certainly be given. Till then, it does manage to capture a ballpark figure for first year GPAs.
- Matlab Matrix Aide This Excel file was designed primarily for Math 102 labs, but is usable in the contexts of entering in matrices into Matlab. For many, typing in code to build a matrix is awkward and, more importantly, inefficient. With this file, all you need is to put in the matrix numbers, give the matrix a name, and copy the final formula from Excel into Matlab. Saves quite some time.