Fetal Body Composition part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
This is a comprehensive and practical project in Calculus for life science majors, which helps students gain a deeper understanding of fundamental concepts of Calculus and enables them to apply those concepts to ...

Population Dynamics: Bacterial Growth Curves Provide Data to Calculate Growth Rates and Carrying Capacity part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
Bacterial growth rates are monitored by OD and OD converted to cell population density from a standard curve derived from plate counts. The resulting data are used to fit a logistic model solved at discrete time ...

Mathematical Analysis of Type 2 Diabetes Predisposition part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
In this activity, students will examine the relationship between glucose and insulin in the human body using models based on the physiology of glucose metabolism and insulin secretion. We will view the body and its ...

Curve Fitting Exercise in MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
In this activity, students program using MATLAB to compare the fit of several models to an experimental data set. The activity is designed to teach students with limited MATLAB experience how to write code to fit ...

Principal Component Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
Principal Component Analysis on the MNIST data set.

Simulación de modelos de crecimiento diáuxico part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Taller con MATLAB Septiembre 2023:Actividades de Enseñanza
Oscar Ariel Rojas-Rejón, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Occidente, Departamento de Procesos Tecnológicos e Industriales Resumen Esta actividad se encuentra diseñada para que los estudiantes ...

Sensitivity of Parameters in Chaotic Systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
In this computer lab activity, students explore and discuss the nature of the sensitivity of parameters in a chaotic system. As a result, they understand the challenges of numerical simulation and/or parameters ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using MATLAB to Study Plant Health and Herbivory for Small-scale Research Experiments part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
This lab manual supports undergraduate students and researchers in using non-destructive, cost-effective techniques to measure a variety of plant phenotypes including resistance to insect herbivory, pigmentation, ...