Bringing interactivity into engineering courses with BERT-based Excel®-R applications

Abstract

With Excel being the computing tool most used by the engineering community, developing Excel applications that call R functions is highly desirable for engineers as it merges Excel's interactivity with a high level numerical environment. This presentation was written with engineering trainers in mind. It should provide them with an applied and illustrative guide for easy development of applications that merge Excel and R using BERT as the interoperability solution. Such applications, which are interactive by design since they use Excel as their front end, can help engineering educators increase the attractiveness and dynamics of their engineering courses.