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Liengme's Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers

(Windows and Mac)

  • 1st Edition - August 14, 2019
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Bernard Liengme, Keith Hekman
  • Language: English

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… Read more

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Description

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.

Key features

  • Content written specifically for the requirements of science and engineering students and professionals working with Microsoft Excel, brought fully up to date with Microsoft Office release of Excel 2016.
  • Features of Excel 2016 are illustrated through a wide variety of examples based on technical contexts, demonstrating the use of the program for analysis and presentation of experimental results.
  • Where appropriate, demonstrates the differences between the PC and Mac versions of Excel.
  • Includes many new end-of-chapter problems at varying levels of difficulty.

Readership

Undergraduate science and engineering students; professional scientists and engineers

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

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: August 14, 2019
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Bernard Liengme

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.
Affiliations and expertise
St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, Canada

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Keith Hekman

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.
Affiliations and expertise
Gordon and Jill Bourns College of Engineering, California Baptist University, Riverside, CA, USA

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