Conduction and Convection in a Fin of Uniform Cross Section part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Conduction and convection are two important modes of heat transfer. To understand the mechanisms of these two types of heat transfer processes, we study the temperature distribution in a fin of uniform cross ...

Example Bisection Method Problem in MATLAB Grader part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Here's an example of a text book problem in Numerical Methods that was converted to a MATLAB Grader assignment to assess students in a more automated and interactive way. Other problems can be modeled and ...

Physical Activity and Heart Rates part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
This problem is an assessment of several computational methods being pulled together to solve a complex problem for biomedical engineering students. Students need to use mock clinical data to compute whether study ...

Virtual Pendulum Experiments & Mechanical Oscillations part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
The pendulum motion is one of the first encounters with the concept of a harmonic oscillator. This activity seeks to complement a traditional, rigorous, theoretical approach with a rigorous numerical model. It ...

Electrical Circuit Virtual Lab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
The students are introduced to design/implementation, testing and verification Electric Circuit problem using MATLAB Simulink Simscape and Live Scripts to understand the concept better. This will increase the ...

Image classification: cats vs. dogs part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
In this project you will design and implement a deep learning solution for image classification based on images of cats and dogs.

Making Sense of Gait Ground Reaction Force Data part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Students analyze a data set containing ground reaction forces from a human walking on an instrumented treadmill.

Numerical Differentiation for Chemical Engineers part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
In this activity students learn to apply appropriate numerical differentation formulas to non-uniformly spaced data. The concept is applied to a chemical engineering problem where the goal is to measure how the ...

Forced Response with Coulomb Damping part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Students determine and plot the response of a vibrating system under a harmonic excitation force, in the presence of Coulomb Damping. The assignment requires students to solve a 2nd order differential equation ...

Building an Air Frame Dynamics Model in MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
This set of LiveScripts is designed to help students develop a MATLAB model of the physics of flight for a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). It is intended to be self-paced.