Skip to main content

Unfortunately we don't fully support your browser. If you have the option to, please upgrade to a newer version or use Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, or Safari 14 or newer. If you are unable to, and need support, please send us your feedback.

We'd appreciate your feedback.Tell us what you think!

Elsevier
Publish with us
Liengme's Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers

Book Companion

Liengme's Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers

Edition 1

Welcome to our companion site for Liengme's Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers (Windows and Mac).

Accessibility description

The accessibility metadata for this title is unknown or has not been provided to Elsevier by the original publisher.

Liengme’s Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers is a completely updated guide for students, scientists, and engineers who want to use Microsoft Excel 2016 to its full potential, whether you’re using a PC or a Mac. Electronic spreadsheet analysis has become part of the everyday work of researchers in all areas of engineering and science. Microsoft Excel, as the industry standard spreadsheet, has a range of scientific functions that can be utilized for the modeling, analysis, and presentation of quantitative data. This text provides a straightforward guide to using these functions of Microsoft Excel, guiding the reader from basic principles through to more complicated areas such as formulae, charts, curve-fitting, equation solving, integration, macros, statistical functions, and presenting quantitative data.

Key Features

  • Content written specifically for the requirements of science and engineering students and professionals working with Microsoft Excel, brought fully up to date with Microsoft Office release of Excel 2016.

  • Features of Excel 2016 are illustrated through a wide variety of examples based on technical contexts, demonstrating the use of the program for analysis and presentation of experimental results.

  • Where appropriate, demonstrates the differences between the PC and Mac versions of Excel.

  • Includes many new end-of-chapter problems at varying levels of difficulty.

About the Authors

Dr. Bernard Liengme attended Imperial College in London and received a BSc & Ph.D. in Chemistry. He also received post-docs at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh and the University of British Columbia. He has conducted extensive research in surface chemistry and Mossbauer Effect. He has been at St Francis Xavier University in Canada since 1968 as professor, Associate Dean, and Registrar as well as teaching chemistry and computer science. He is the author of four previous versions of “A Guide to Microsoft Excel for Scientists and Engineers,” most recently the Excel 2013 version.

Dr. Keith Hekman received his BSE degree from Calvin College and received his Master's and Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Currently he is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Gordon and Jill Bourns College of Engineering at California Baptist University where he has taught a freshman Excel and AutoCAD course for the past 11 years. Prior to coming to CBU, he taught at Calvin College and the American University of Cairo.

Click the links above for Excel documents and other data for the chapters listed.

Click the links below to access supporting videos,

Chapter 01

Exercise 1: Customizing the QAT

Exercise 2: Customizing the Ribbon Control

Welcome to Excel 2016

Chapter 02

Copying Formulas What Happens to References

Exercise 1: Simple Arithmetic

Exercise 2: The Mathematical Operators

Exercise 3: Formatting (Displayed and Stored Values)

Exercise 4: Working with Fractions

Exercise 5: A Practical Worksheet

Exercise 6: Another Practical Example

Exercise 7: The Evaluate Formula Tool

Chapter 03

Exercise 1: Quick Print and Print Preview

Exercise 2: The Page Layout Tab

Exercise 3: Header

Exercise 4: Documentation and Printing Formulas

Chapter 04

Exercise 1: The AutoSum Tool

Exercise 2: Computing a Weighted Average and Exercise

Exercise 4: Trigonometry Functions

Exercise 5: Exponential Functions

Exercise 6: The ROUND,ROUNDUP and ROUNDDOWN Functions

Exercise 7: Matrix Functions

Exercise 8: Solving Systems of Equations

Exercise 9: Borrower Beware

Chapter 05

Exercise 1: Boolean Functions

Exercise 2: Practical Example

Exercise 3: Resistors Revisited

Exercise 5: Protecting a Worksheet

Exercise 6: A Simple Lookup

Exercise 7: A Two-Valued Lookup

Exercise 8: Conditional Arithmetic

Exercise 9: Array Formulas

Exercise 10: The SUMPRODUCT function

Exercise 11: Conditional Formatting

Chapter 06

PivotTable

Chapter 07

Exercise 1: An XY Chart

Exercise 2: Plotting Functions,Changing the position

Exercise 3: Adding and Deleting Data Series

Exercise 4: XY Chart with Two Y-axes

Exercise 5: Chart with Control Lines

Exercise 6: Large Numbers and Log Scales

Exercise 7: Error Bars

Exercise 8: Plotting Parametric Equations

Exercise 9: Polar (Radar) Chart

Exercise 10: Surface Charts

Exercise 11: Combination Charts

Exercise 12: Bar Charts

Chapter 08

Exercise 1: Trendline, SLOPE, and INTERCEPT

Exercise 2: Interpolation and FORECAST

Exercise 3: The LINEST Function

Exercise 4: Fixed Intercept

Exercise 5: Multi-linear Regression

Exercise 6: A Polynomial Fit

Exercise 7: A Logarithmic Fit (LOGEST)

Exercise 8: The FORECAST, TREND and GROWTH functions

Exercise 9: Slope and Tangent

Exercise 10: The Analysis Toolpak

Shop for books, journals, and more.

Discover over 2,960 journals, 48,300 books, and many iconic reference works.