They still teach Matlab at Berkeley as the intro course for (non CS) engineering students, E7. http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~sanjay/e7/syl.pdf http://www.ce.berk

They still teach Matlab at Berkeley as the intro course for (non CS) engineering students, E7. http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~sanjay/e7/syl.pdf http://www.ce.berkeley.edu/~sanjay/e7/syl.pdf Then if you take an upper div class like EE120, Linear Systems, the homework sets will be in Matlab. We used it again in EE192, Mechatronics. Non engineering students (CS students) will have to pick it up immediately. I'd have preferred using Octave on my laptop rather than Matlab which was installed on Windows machines. Matlab is definitely used for non-CS engineering.