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 ...

The success of implementing a MATLAB project in a Medical Physics course part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
David Sterling, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
David Sterling, Radiation Oncology, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities Implementing computational projects in the classroom has helped my students understand material better and more quickly than they did before ...

Helping psychology students embrace computational thinking part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Adam Steiner, Minnesota State University-Mankato
Adam Steiner, Psychology, Minnesota State University-Mankato Prior to graduate school, my experiences with programming were limited to a few problems in computational physics. Once I began graduate school in ...

The importance of programming skills in achieving biomedical solutions in the modern world part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Manuel Hernandez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Manuel Hernandez, Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As globalization continues to flatten our world, challenges and opportunities increasingly operate in a broader ...

The importance of programming skills in improving health across the lifespan part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Manuel Hernandez, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Manuel Hernandez, Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign As the oldest of the old continue to become an increasingly larger percentage of our population, challenges due to ...

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, ...

Computation for the speech and hearing sciences part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Alan Kan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Alan Kan, , University of Wisconsin-Madison As technology becomes increasingly more pervasive in research and clinical practice, I believe it is becoming more important for undergraduate students in the speech and ...

Advancing the neuroscience curricula, a computational thinking approach. part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Daniel Zysman, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Daniel Zysman, Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology We often hear that the brain is a marvelous and impressive computational device. Most of the current research efforts in the field ...