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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Puzzle Coding part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Tactile activities or "tactivities" are one form of active learning that can increase student participation and enhance students' understanding of conceptual materials. In this tactile activity, ...

Random Walks in the Plane part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
This in-class demonstration shows how to use the built-in random number generators to simulate and visualize two-dimensional random walks in the xy-plane, and begins to study the distribution of distances from the ...

Illustrating Theorems from Calculus part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
In this activity, students use MATLAB to create and interact with illustrations of three theorems from Calculus: (1) Extreme Value Theorem, (2) Intermediate Value Theorem, and (3) Mean Value Theorem. The assignment ...

Static stability: mechanisms and prestress modes part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Summary: The assignment is about detecting structural stability in a 3D truss by applying linear algebra concepts such as rank, column-space and null-space of a matrix. Outcomes: * Students should learn linear ...

Solving First Order ODE's part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
This assignment is for a Differential Equations course that has students use a computer to solve first order ODE's graphically using slope fields, numerically, and analytically. One part of the assignment has ...

A project-based mechanics and mathematics course utilizing MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Essays
Mettupalayam Sivaselvan, Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, SUNY at Buffalo This essay is based on a first-year graduate-level course that I recently started teaching on mathematical principles ...

Choose Your Own Adventure: Teaching a Project-Based Intro to MATLAB Seminar part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Essays
Ryan Pellico, Mathematics, Trinity College In my second year of teaching, I inherited an introduction to MATLAB seminar titled "Scientific Computing in MATLAB" which had been created the previous year by ...