Liengme's Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers: (Windows and Mac)

by Bernard Liengme, Keith Hekman Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology

Overview

Liengme’s Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers is a completely updated guide for students, scientists, and engineers who want to use Microsoft Excel 2016 to its full potential, whether you’re using a PC or a Mac. Electronic spreadsheet analysis has become part of the everyday work of researchers in all areas of engineering and science. Microsoft Excel, as the industry standard spreadsheet, has a range of scientific functions that can be utilized for the modeling, analysis, and presentation of quantitative data. This text provides a straightforward guide to using these functions of Microsoft Excel, guiding the reader from basic principles through to more complicated areas such as formulae, charts, curve-fitting, equation solving, integration, macros, statistical functions, and presenting quantitative data.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780128182499
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	08/14/2019
Pages:	414
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Bernard Liengme attended Imperial College in London and received a BSc & Ph.D. in Chemistry. He also received post-docs at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of British Columbia. He has conducted extensive research in surface chemistry and Mossbauer Effect. He has been at St Francis Xavier University in Canada since 1968 as professor, Associate Dean, and Registrar as well as teaching chemistry and computer science. He is the author of four previous versions of “A Guide to Microsoft Excel for Scientists and Engineers,” most recently the Excel 2013 version.

Dr. Keith Hekman received his BSE degree from Calvin College and received his Master's and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently he is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Gordon and Jill Bourns College of Engineering at California Baptist University where he has taught a freshman Excel and AutoCAD course for the past 11 years. Prior to coming to CBU, he taught at Calvin College and the American University of Cairo.

Table of Contents

1. Welcome to Microsoft Excel 20162. Basic Operations3. Printing in Excel4. Using Functions5. Decision Functions6. Data Mining7. Charting8. Regression Analysis9. VBA User-Defined Functions10. VBA Subroutines11. Modeling I12. Using Solver13. Numerical Integration14. Differential Equations15. Modeling II16. Statistics for Experimenters

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The indispensable guide for all scientists, engineers and students who wish to use Microsoft Excel to its full potential, now updated for Excel 2016