Article: Mathcad in engineering ...in action!

A series of technical document sets recently produced by Adept Scientific shows how Mathcad is being used in totally different branches of engineering. John-Mary Gautier-Sempala introduces these free publications, and explains how to order them.

Mathcad is a technical document creation system, an engineering calculation environment and a mathematical reference library which, with the addition of libraries and on-line resources, can be made even more relevant to individual specialisations such as aerospace engineering. It's all these things, and more.

As a new series of promotional documents for the software says, “Mathcad solves mathematical problems, generates graphs and visualisations, and does everything you'd ever dreamed a PC application for engineers would do. If you know how much your time is worth, you'll know it's time to take a look at putting Mathcad at the heart of your work.”

But these publications are more than just promotional literature. “Why thousands of telecommunications engineers have invested in Mathcad”, for example, give some extensive examples to show you how Mathcad can start to really make your PC work for you. Read Bruce McNair of AT&T describing how Mathcad lets the company simulate a whole system - transmitter, channel, receiver - and helps solve symbolic problems that can't be simulated numerically. Take a look at a sample from one of the Mathcad “Electronic Books” from the telecomms sector. More than a reference, Electronic Books actually perform the operations they document:
see how the guide to radio transmission and reception doesn't just describe the process: it actually does the complete calculations.

If you want to read something refreshingly technical and detailed about software before buying it, these guides are for you. If one’s been produced for your industry, you’ll want to give it a close read, click here.

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