Introduction to Occupational and Rehabilitation Biomechanics part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Manuel Hernandez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Students are instructed to create a biomechanical model in MATLAB to simulate reaching as far forward and as fast as possible without falling. The goal of the project is to produce a model using realistic ...

Intro to Image Processing with MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
This short project introduces students to image processing with MATLAB including importing images from the web, color transformations, circle finding, and edge finding. These techniques are broadly applicable in ...

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 ...

's a ... FIRE! A simulation of fire caused by gender reveal parties. part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Sarah Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
In this project, students create a simulation of a spreading fire through a forest using MATLAB. This simulation contains many different parameters that control the random spread. Students will complete a ...

Measuring voting districts and distributions part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio College
This project-based activity allows students to use MATLAB to analyze voting district boundaries and their relationship to social and environmental justice. Students recreate geographic borders, calculate centroids, ...

Design a basketball shooting machine part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In this assignment, students will determine the appropriate exit velocity from a basketball shooting machine as it passes the ball back to the shooter on the free throw line. Students will simulate the trajectory ...

Classification Exercise - Pattern Recognition part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Luis M Vicente, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This exercise contains instructions for a university project related to pattern recognition using MATLAB. Students are tasked with testing a pre-designed classifier, analyzing results, and submitting a detailed ...

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Project part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Dan Burleson, University of Houston-University Park
This activity is a project designed to introduce undergraduate chemical engineering students to chemical engineering thermodynamics in the context of MATLAB. The project requires students to learn concepts they ...

Computational Plasticity Algorithms part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Wei Tong, Southern Methodist University
The elastic-plastic deformation of a metal sample is history-dependent and path-dependent. This assignment introduces a simple explicit numerical algorithm and two enhancements for incremental stress integration of ...

Shallow Foundation Design and Settlement Analysis Using MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Hejintao Huang, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
This project-based teaching activity guides students in calculating the ultimate and allowable bearing capacities of shallow foundations using Terzaghi's and General Bearing Capacity Equations for various ...