Computing for 3rd year Geoscience Undergraduates
Dylan Mikesell, Boise State University
Dylan Mikesell, Geosciences, Boise State University My experience teaching computation is limited (I just started my second year as an Assistant Professor), but I use computing in all of my research. I strongly ...

"Into MATLAB" - A series of video lectures accompanying "From Zero to Matlab in ..."
Frederik J Simons, Princeton University
Frederik J Simons, Geosciences, Princeton University A while ago I started dreaming of producing a series of video lectures in the style of the YouTube sensations "MinutePhysics" (often about a minute ...

The importance of programming skills in achieving biomedical solutions in the modern world
Manuel Hernandez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Manuel Hernandez, Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As globalization continues to flatten our world, challenges and opportunities increasingly operate in a broader ...

EXPERIMENTAL MATH & EDUCATION
Victor Padron, Normandale Community College
Victor Padron, Mathematics, Normandale Community College "Mathematics does not grow through a monotonous increase of the number of indubitably established theorems but through the incessant improvement of ...

Goals for teaching numerical integration in Calculus or Differential Equations Courses
Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel, Mount Holyoke College
Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel, Mathematics and Statistics, Mount Holyoke College There's a joke about mathematicians where the punch line involves a mathematician in a room with a burning fire, a sink and a bucket. ...

Integrative Biomathematical Learning Alliance Across Academic Departments
Gregory Goins, North Carolina A & T State University
Gregory D. Goins, , North Carolina A & T State University Across the nation, many generalized programs have focused on retention of minority students in the sciences with varying degrees of success. ...

Computation for the speech and hearing sciences
Alan Kan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alan Kan, , University of Wisconsin-Madison As technology becomes increasingly more pervasive in research and clinical practice, I believe it is becoming more important for undergraduate students in the speech and ...

Using computation to understand statistics through climatology
Janel Hanrahan, Lyndon State College
Janel Hanrahan, Atmospheric Sciences, Lyndon State College Put simply, climate is the statistics of weather. To gain a true understanding of climate science, students must therefore have a sound understanding of ...

CREATING CORE COURSE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PATHWAYS VIA MATLAB SIMBIOLOGY
Princess Imoukhuede, Washington University in St. Louis
Princess Imoukhuede, Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BACKGROUND University of Illinois (UIUC) lags in undergraduate research. Undergraduate research participation at the UIUC is low ...

Cracking the Code: Understanding the Mystery behind the Computational Tool
Marjorie Hubbard, North Carolina School of Science and Math
Marjorie Hubbard, Engineering and Technology, North Carolina School of Math and Science I have previously used MATLAB in my graduate work in computational electrophysiology and have found it to be an extremely ...