Friends: Here is an open source resource developed in India which would be of immense use to faculty and students of all branches of engineering. For more information please read the one-page article on Scilab Textbook Companio, written by Prof. Richard Braatz, the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Control Systems Magazine (attached). You may also visit the Scilab website (IIT Bombay). The IITB Scilab team also conducts workshops in Scilab, Python, FreeEDA (Oscad), OpenFOAM and COIN-OR. Those of you working in institutions catering to engineering (teaching and research) may kindly alert your users to this article as well as the Scilab website. Indeed, you may arrange a Scilab talk/workshop at your institution. Please talk to Prof. Kannan Moudgalya of IITB. Thanks. Arun -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.