Teaching Activities
View the Exemplary
Reviewed collection »The Teaching Computation in the Sciences Using MATLAB activities are submitted by workshop participants, community members, and other SERC community participants. All of the activities in the collection use MATLAB in some capacity and cover a variety of STEM courses and topics.
« Back to Teaching Computation in the Sciences Share an activity »
Resource Type: Activities Show all
Activities > Problem Set
2 matchesResults 1 - 2 of 2 matches
Physical Activity and Heart Rates part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Jennifer Jordan, Virginia Commonwealth University
This problem is an assessment of several computational methods being pulled together to solve a complex problem for biomedical engineering students. Students need to use mock clinical data to compute whether study ...
Learn more about this review process.
SIR Model - Finding Relationship between Contact Rate and Peak Infection Rate part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Michael Thorburn, California State University-Los Angeles
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 ...