I'm a control and automation engineer with masters in mechanical engineering.
I started to use LaTeX in an undergraduate research, and it rapidly became clear that LaTeX would be much more useful for me than the old methods in MS Word.
As I constantly use Matlab to teach and to work with numerical data, it became a natural step to start connecting Matlab and LaTeX.
Indeed, I also wrote a package to generate LaTeX syntax directly from Matlab to automate and enable a fast writing of reports in LaTeX:
https://in.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/72155-matlab-to-latex-library
Modest creator of the packages: