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A collection of essays submitted by participants in the Teaching Computation Using MATLAB workshops.
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Importance of MATLAB in engineering part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Miguel Goni Rodrigo, University of South Florida
Miguel Goni Rodrigo, Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida There has been a significant shift in engineering from in-lab experiments and testing to numerical simulations. In order to run such ...
Teaching Basic Problem Decomposition and Algorithm Design Skills part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University
Mandoye Ndoye, Electrical and Computer Enngineering, Tuskegee University With the advent of the data science era, there is a great and immediate need for the training of engineers that can use principled methods ...
Teaching Quantum Mechanics with MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Paul Kassebaum, MathWorks
Paul Kassebaum, MathWorks - updated February 2021 by Temo Vekua, MathWorks Please refer to the files attached to this SERC submission, which includes formulae and images that could not be included in this text ...
Using MATLAB to improve student understanding of vector calculus part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Essays
Anantha Aiyyer, North Carolina State University
Anantha Aiyyer, Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University I work in the field of atmospheric sciences. My research involves analysis of data from observations and running numerical ...
Overcoming Challenges in Teaching Computation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, California State University-Sacramento
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, Mathematics and Statistics, California State University-Sacramento One of the biggest challenges in teaching multi-variable calculus is the visualization of 3D spaces. In single-variable ...
Self-paced learning in an undergraduate MATLAB course part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert, Stockton University
Anna Pfeiffer-Herbert, Marine Science, Stockton University I teach at a primarily undergraduate institution in a program—marine science—that draws students with high motivation and interest in their field of ...
The Role of Computation in 21st Century part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Today, perhaps the most desired skill required is computation. We see the application of computation in Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer aided drug design, financial models, earth observations, ...
Use of Matlab to reinforce concepts of Compton effect part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Eric Ehler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Eric Ehler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities I recall on my time as a first year graduate student taking a course on radiologic physics and radiation dosimetry and remember well seeing this equation: (d_e ...
Computation and Assessment part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Michael Groves, California State University-Fullerton
Michael Groves, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University-Fullerton I teach quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, kinetics and statistical mechanics. These courses typically have problems that are very ...
Foundational computation for first-year physics undergraduates part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Duncan Carlsmith, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison The AAPT/APS Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Education report [1] examines the motivations for, goals of, and barriers to including computation ...