Programming for Engineers

Visual Basic for Applications can be used to extend the capabilities of Excel with custom calculations. Microsoft Excel itself is not a programming language but does include an integrated development environment for recording and running macros (VBA environment). Excel macros are a series of commands that can be repeated to operate repeatedly on sets of data.

Below is an example problem that demonstrates whether a tank of particular dimensions will overflow with a certain amount of time. The tutorial shows how to import data from the worksheet, perform volume calculations, determine whether the tank will overflow with an IF statement, print out a message box, and export the volume values to the active worksheet.

This same example problem is also demonstrated with MATLAB and in the Python programming language