Not seeing anyone else saying MTS Whey , which is a shame . <| sep |> The specifics of Matlab for aerospace comes from the math behind it not so much particular parts of the language . I was the Matlab guy when I was in school . I essentially did nothing but Matlab for a year in grad school for my thesis . In my opinion there are 3 things you really need to nail down to be able to use Matlab effectively . You need to know that plotting functions front to back and you ' ll most likely have to learn this from some online tutorials or really just experimenting . You ' ll want an OK programming background , our program allowed for a few technical electives which I would recommend taking some CS courses to learn how to program not necessarily program Matlab . Finally just really learn the math that goes into the equations your working with . The other big plus with Matlab is how easy it is to perform some high level math operations , so learn the math and often times you can just search Matlab your math operation here and you ' ll get the documentation page .