Creating your own Optimization code using numerical methods part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Gisella Lamas, University of Kentucky
Students were taught how to use numerical methods such as the Golden Section search, Newton-Raphson and Secant method. These methods take a long time when doing by hand and the complexity of optimization problems ...

Put out the Fire! Exploring the Effects of Fire-Fighting Foams on Microorganisms using Statistics and Plots part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Tess Weathers, Chabot College, Engineering
Objective Analyze a subset of data from a published research paper using MATLAB. This will focus on data manipulation in MATLAB, including reading in text files, for, if, and while statements, statistics, and plot ...

Calculating and using Unit Hydrograph using Matlab part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Negin Hayatbini, University of California-Irvine; Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
We are using the concept of Unit Hydrograph to understand the behavior of a watershed following a rain event and to calculate the runoff following any rainfall event.

Building Intuition for Fourier Series/Transforms part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Jenny Magnes, Vassar College
This activity consists of two parts:1. Represent functions using Fourier series.2. Understanding how a function's properties manifest in reciprocal space.

Iterative methods for solving linear systems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Blanca Guillén, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira, Mathematics
Students will learn Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and SOR methods for solving linear systems. Students are also asked to generate the iterative matrices, decide about the convergence and compare the results obtained with ...

Working with Spatial Data in MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2020:Activities
Andrew Fischer, university of tasmania
Students are introduced to two spatial data models, vector and raster. By the end of this activity, students will be able to describe the two different data models and create, import and visualize various spatial ...

Preparing data for climate change analysis using MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
In this activity, we mainly learn the importance of analyzing data format before applying models to it, with the examples of drought. We use monthly precipitation from the Climate Research Unit (gridded data) and ...

Investigating Properties of Determinants using Numerical Examples part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Activities
Sandra Akelbek, Weber State University
We use Matlab as an enrichment tool for Elementary Linear Algebra. In this activity, students investigate, numerically, properties of determinants by creating and using random matrices. In particular, student ...

Parametrization and Visualization of Quadric Surfaces part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, California State University-Sacramento
This activity is exploratory and collaborative MATLAB activity. Students will explore and visualize graphs of quadric surfaces. In this activity, students will parametrize equations of surfaces and explore families ...

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 ...