Put out the Fire! Exploring the Effects of Fire-Fighting Foams on Microorganisms using Statistics and Plots part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Objective Analyze a subset of data from a published research paper using MATLAB. This will focus on data manipulation in MATLAB, including reading in text files, for, if, and while statements, statistics, and plot ...

SIR Model - Finding Relationship between Contact Rate and Peak Infection Rate part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
In this set of exercises, a script is developed that solves the coupled system of ordinary differential equations making up an SIR model of virus spread. The peak value computed for the infected population is found ...

A Daily Dose of MATLAB for College Freshmen part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Teaching first-year college students, with my colleague Adam Maloof, as part of a research-oriented "Freshman Seminar" involves teaching students MATLAB -- from scratch to proficiency. Rather than sharing ...

Was that a vee or a nu? Challenges to collaborative learning in a virtual space part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Essays
Benjamin Bratton, Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University Mid-semester spring 2020, our university moved all of its instruction into a virtual format, including the introductory ...