Forced Response with Coulomb Damping part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Natasha Smith, University of Virginia-Main Campus
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 ...

Solving First Order ODE's part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Rick Downs, Seattle Community College-South Campus
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 ...

Static stability: mechanisms and prestress modes part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Mettupalayam Sivaselvan, SUNY at Buffalo
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 ...

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

Random Walks in the Plane part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Ryan Pellico, Trinity College
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 ...

Puzzle Coding part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Sarah Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
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, ...

Numerical Differentiation for Chemical Engineers part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Roman Voronov, New Jersey Institute of Technology
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 ...

Visualize the variation of engineering constants for an angle-ply based on those for a unidirectional lamina and the angle of the ply using Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Seyed Soltani, Florida Polytechnic University
In this assignment students will use the provided Matlab functions to create the plots showing the variation of engineering properties with respect to the fiber angle theta for graphite-reinforced composites.

Finding the Numerical Solution to a Rigid Body Kinetics Problem part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Yan Tang, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University-Prescott
This is one of MATLAB Grader problems assigned to engineering sophomores in an introductory dynamics course. This assignment is to solve a system of equation of a rigid body kinetics problem.

Programming a Self Balancing Motorcycle part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Jea Joseph, Oakwood College
From the Arduino Engineering Kit Rev 2, Project #1: Design a control system to keep this motorcycle upright using a flywheel for balance. This project will introduce freshmen STEM students a real life application ...