2006-07-05 02:58:20 · 6 answers · asked by Aaron G 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
I'm a process engineer and for me Excel is the best overall program for engineers. When I was a student, I would have said Mathcad, for sure. However as an engineer in industry:
1) I need to pull a lot of data from monitoring systems in tables and I have excel ad-ins to do that
2) I need a quick tool to do basic analysis and calculations
3) Neatly and quickly represent the results and data trends graphically
4) General basic calculations.
Excel provides a structured environment with enough features to satisfy all my neads. In industry you are not generally faced with academic type analyses that require Mathcad/Matlab, etc. Excel is versatile, quick, convienient and flexabile
2006-07-05 05:10:23 · answer #1 · answered by Engineering_rules 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
LaTeX -- all engineers need to write documents, presentations, papers, etc ... (Note: Microsoft does not come close for any of this)
Anything else you can find a branch of engineering that doesn't use a program. For example, I'm an electrical engineer and the last time I used AutoCAD was when I was in school taking a mechanical engineering course.
2006-07-05 10:24:19 · answer #2 · answered by cw 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say Excel. Most engineers spend much more time doing calculations than they do drafting. Also you can use Excel as a word processor and a simple data base.
2006-07-05 11:03:56 · answer #3 · answered by oil field trash 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
MATLAB
With proper programming, you can mimic the functionality of all the above-mentioned programs.
2006-07-05 11:07:24 · answer #4 · answered by captainspizzo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
AutoCad
2006-07-05 10:14:52 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think, auto cad.
2006-07-05 11:21:02 · answer #6 · answered by That_guy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋