MODELING APPROACH TO TEACH GAS TURBINE BASED POWER CYCLES part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Farshid Zabihian, California State University-Sacramento
In these teaching activities students developed several simple models and conduct sensitivity analysis and interpreted the results through modeling. First, they are asked to find various properties of a stream ...

'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 ...

Global Warming: A Zonal Energy Balance Model part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Teaching Activities
Victor Padron, Normandale Community College
This is a teaching module, directed to undergraduate students in applied mathematics, that presents a Zonal Energy Balance Model to describe the evolution of the latitudinal distribution of Earth's surface ...

Cool Roof part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio College
This project is a hands-on, open-ended, collaborative assessment of students' abilities to collect numerical data, and develop mathematical models of naturally occurring phenomena. Students design physical ...

Unprecedented part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio College
This project is designed to introduce lower-division science and engineering students to mathematical modelling through the analysis of real-world data related to the novel coronavirus global pandemic. The project ...

Predicting Coronary Heart Disease Using Machine Learning Model part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Abhishek Appaji, BMS College Of Engineering
This activity introduces students to supervised learning methods and basic data science techniques using MATLAB. The focus is on the prediction of CHD using logistic regression. This activity involves implementing ...

Teaching Fault based Voltage Sag and interruption in Matlab & Simulink part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop Dec 2021:Activities
Seema Behera, Silicon Institute of Technology, Odisha ,India
With increasing application sensitive electronic loads and digital controllers, there is a need for quality power to be delivered to the consumer of electricity. In case of poor power quality there can be economic ...

How Fast is fast food? part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Babasola Ogunsanya, Montgomery College
Students will be working in groups of three to research the nutritional content of meals on the menu list of various fast food restaurants. They will analyze the nutritional content and present their findings in ...

Abrupt climate change, greenhouse gases, and the bipolar see-saw part of Early Career:Previous Workshops:Workshop 2010:Teaching Activities
Kathleen Johnson, University of California-Irvine
In this activity, students work with paleoclimate proxy data (d18O, CH4, CO2)from the Byrd and GISP2 ice cores. Students prepare a graph of paleoclimate data and use the graph to answer several questions about the ...

Virtual Pendulum Experiments & Mechanical Oscillations part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Jeremy Riousset, Florida Institute of Technology-Melbourne
The pendulum motion is one of the first encounters with the concept of a harmonic oscillator. This activity seeks to complement a traditional, rigorous, theoretical approach with a rigorous numerical model. It ...