Excel is often mistakenly perceived simply as a business tool. This website provides an insight on how Excel software can be effectively utilised in a wide range of engineering applications. Engineering students typically use software like MATLAB or MATHEMATICA during their tertiary studies, and though in industry most engineers have access to Excel, utilization is generally limited to crunching out numbers and data storage.

As this site illustrates, Excel is a powerful and versatile tool that can be broadly adapted to supporting a wide variety of engineering functionality and complex numerical analysis applications. A secondary objective of this site is to convey to the readers an appreciation for the understated beauty of mathematics in general, and numerical analysis in particular. Mathematics is like art - it challenges the mind and showcases the hidden capacity and beauty of the human imagination.

XLnControl : The business site

Most of the Apps on this site have been built using Microsoft Excel 2003. They will also work in Excel 2007 and Excel 2010. All Apps are provided as free downloads.

Please also visit the business site XLnControl.com which features industrial strength Excel tools for instrumentation and control professionals.

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank all those visitors who have actively provided feedback to this site over the years. Some have also shared their case study/application specifics, and this has usually been featured at one or more locations within this site. In the interest of continuous improvement of the site, services and available products, I urge the readers to please keep the feedback coming, as appropriate, on email mehta.nitin@gmail.com.



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Featured: Animation Using Excel

This video shows various Excel animation techniques demonstrated on this site. The following apps have been featured in this video:

Pendulum Waves

Lightning Wand

Filling a tank

Alarm Logic Circuit

Digital Rain

Electric Bell

Simulation of a CPU

PLC Simulator in Excel

Check out the Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) Simulator