(Programming Induced) Fear and Loathing in Lost Students part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Matthew Leineweber, San Jose State University
Matthew Joseph Leineweber, Biomedical Engineering, San Jose State University (Programming-Induced) Fear and Loathing in Lost Students As an undergraduate student in mechanical engineering, I developed a theory: as ...

Solving Problems You Thought Were Unsolvable part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Eric Choate, Radford University
Eric Choate, Mathematics and Statistics, Radford University We require the majors in our Applied Mathematics concentration to take a two-semester sequence in Numerical Analysis. It features numerical methods for ...

Challenges with teaching computation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Babasola Ogunsanya, Montgomery College
Babasola Ogunsanya, Mathematics, Montgomery College According to Mathworld (2019) computation can be defined as an operation that begins with some initial conditions and gives an output which follows from a ...

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 ...

MATLAB' "easy programming" for discipline "Information Processes and Coding" part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Yevgeny Gayev, National aviation university
Yevgeny Gayev, Aerospace Control Systems Department, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine Being familiar with MATLAB (see my Essay1) allows to educator realize pedagogical approach of "own ...

Teaching Computational Thinking Skills from the Student's Early Years Through College part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Samuel Olatunbosun, Norfolk State University
Samuel BO Olatunbosun, Computer Science, Norfolk State University Overview Computational thinking (CT), a popular term that experienced a surge of popularity in the 2000s, refers to a broad range of psychological ...

Specifications-Based Grading for Assessing Student Learning part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Kristi Closser, California State University-Fresno
Kristi Closser, California State University-Fresno What is the difference between a student who receives a 79% in a course and one who gets 80%? At my university, we do not have +/- designations associated with ...

No Thinking, No Engineer part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Be Oni, Tuskegee University
Ben Oni, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Tuskegee University The engineer provides solutions to problems. Usually, the engineering problem(s) requiring solution may be unique in the sense that it is probable ...

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 ...

Finding the Right Tool for the Job part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Michael Ray, California State University-Sacramento
Michael Ray, Physics & Astronomy, California State University-Sacramento As an experimental physicist, most of the computational work I do comes in the form of data analysis, and this is also true in the ...