Curve Fitting Exercise in MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
Wendy Thomas, University of Washington-Seattle Campus
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 ...

MATLAB for Learning of Signals and Linear Systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2023:Activities
Ali Shiri Sichani, University of Missouri-Columbia
In my Signals and Linear Systems course, I incorporate MATLAB as a teaching tool, assigning students tasks that involve applying MATLAB in the context of signals and systems. This approach aims to enhance ...

Introduction to Matlab: A first glimpse at new data part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
Carlye Peterson, Cuesta College
Introduction to Matlab: A first glimpse at new data. The purpose of this exercise is to familiarize students with basic Matlab functions and techniques so they can load and plot data. With this lab exercise, ...

Using AI to modify MATLAB-Scripts to MATLAB-Apps: General solution to computational problem. part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Julio Hernandez, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This activity teaches educators/students to use a few of the basic concepts of AI and fast track the implementation of Scripts-to-Apps in MATLAB. The user is required to have previous knowledge using Scripts and at ...

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
Anne Walter, Saint Olaf College
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 ...

MATLAB LIGO Analysis part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Foundational computational skills for physics students can be developed in an introductory 2-semester survey course for first-year university physics students using physics-data-driven exercises that introduce ...

Hydraulic Transients in Pipe Systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Juneseok Lee, Manhattan College
Many water utilities have in-house hydraulic modeling capacities to analyze their systems in planning, design, operations, and management. However, many modeling efforts are geared toward or limited to a steady ...

Solving a Simple Drug Delivery Model Using Analytical, Linear Algebra, and Numeric Approaches part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Matthew Leineweber, San Jose State University
The delivery of orally ingested drugs, such as pills and capsules, can be roughly modeled as a system of first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs). This type of "drug-delivery model" can be ...

The 'Keeling Curve' and analyzing time series data in MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Teaching Activities
Gareth Funning, University of California-Riverside
In this exercise, we analyze the trends in the CO2 record monitored at Mauna Loa, (the 'Keeling Curve'). This is an exercise in data handling, interpolation, trend estimation and extrapolation.

Using Matlab to Evaluate a Bracket in Equilibrium part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2017:Activities
Becca Edwards, Southwestern University
Students will evaluate a t-shaped bracket with both supports and applied forces. Both hand calculations and a Matlab script will be used to evaluate the forces. Then, the student will experiment with changing the ...