{"id":53271,"date":"2017-03-16T12:18:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-16T16:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/?p=53271"},"modified":"2024-08-06T15:20:55","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T19:20:55","slug":"attaways-matlab-textbook-wins-excellence-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/2017\/03\/16\/attaways-matlab-textbook-wins-excellence-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Attaway\u2019s MATLAB Textbook Wins Excellence Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Sara Cody<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/profile\/stormy-attaway\/\">Stormy Attaway<\/a> (ME) is the recipient of a 2017 Textbook Excellence Award, or \u201cTexty\u201d for <em>MATLAB: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving, 4<sup>th<\/sup> ed. <\/em>by the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWinning this award speaks not only to Professor Attaway\u2019s deep understanding of the needs of the academic market with respect to how instructors prefer to teach coding using MATLAB, but also to her thoughtful use of learning pedagogy to satisfy the needs of students for learning both built-in MATLAB functions and how to program with MATLAB,\u201d said Steve Merken, senior acquisitions editor for engineering and computing textbooks at Elsevier, the book publisher.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cTexty\u201d awards recognize excellence in current textbook and learning materials each year. Since its publication in 2009, <em>MATLAB <\/em>has become a go-to resource for engineering students learning the programming language. Attaway\u2019s textbook is renowned for its comprehensive step-by-step approach to basic procedural and object-oriented programming concepts and using the program most effectively by vectorizing the code.<\/p>\n<p>According to the judges, <em>MATLAB<\/em> \u201cis an excellent resource for any engineer or scientist that wants to learn MATLAB. This textbook gradually and clearly introduces the student to many important and useful aspects of MATLAB that are often left for more advanced textbooks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The awards will be given at the annual TAA conference in June, held in Providence, R.I.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sara Cody Assistant Professor Stormy Attaway (ME) is the recipient of a 2017 Textbook Excellence Award, or \u201cTexty\u201d for MATLAB: A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving, 4th ed. by the Textbook and Academic Authors Association (TAA). \u201cWinning this award speaks not only to Professor Attaway\u2019s deep understanding of the needs of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[236,908],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154495,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53271\/revisions\/154495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}