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MATLAB is inferior to Python in every way that matters. So why do engineers insist on using it?

July 8, 2022

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  • Matthew Merhtens awarded the NDSEG FellowshipApril 20, 2026
  • A diffuse boundary method for phase boundaries in viscous compressible flow – our work appears in the Journal of Computational PhysicsApril 10, 2026
  • Predicting grain boundary void nucleation sites in microstructure during shock loading with convolutional neural networks – Our work appears in Acta MaterialiaMarch 30, 2026
  • Alamo paper published in JOSSDecember 2, 2025
  • Society of Engineering Science 2025October 16, 2025

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