Designed to elevate the analytical and problem-solving skills of engineering students, this text provides systematic instruction that will allow those students to make full use of the advanced capacities that MATLAB provides. Based on the applied experience of two leading industry consultants in signal and image processing and circuit analysis, this textbook is designed to support the highly regarded courses the two teach at RIT. Offering a broad selection of progressive exercises and MATLAB problems, each chapter features carefully chosen examples that demonstrate underlying ideas at work in practical scenarios. A complete solutions manual is provided for qualifying instructors.