Dong Zhou

Assignment on Runge-Kutta Methods part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This is a sample homework problem in a senior elective course on topics in applied mathematics. This particular problem requires the students to program forward Euler, backward Euler and an explicit 2-stage 2nd ...

Loops and Applications part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
This is a lecture that introduces students to loops in MATLAB (for, while) and some applications (calculating a finite series, creating animation with loops). In the after class assignment, students are asked to ...

Integrating MATLAB Programming into Applied Math Curriculum part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Essays
This webpage is an essay by Dong Zhou from California State University-Los Angeles, detailing his six-year experience integrating MATLAB programming into applied mathematics courses, including numerical analysis, ordinary differential equations, and graduate-level modeling, with the aim of enhancing student engagement and computational skills despite initial coding anxiety among math majors.

Incorporating MATLAB in Applied Mathematics Courses part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
This is an essay page from the Teaching Computation with MATLAB workshop series, detailing an instructor's experience integrating MATLAB into an upper-division applied mathematics course, including pedagogical strategies, student preparation challenges, assignment design combining theory and programming, and reflections on teaching computational mathematics.