The skills gap between the graduates we produce and the graduate students we'd like to recruit (or, "How I bit the bullet and tried to teach computing.") part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Gareth Funning, University of California-Riverside
Gareth Funning, Department of Earth Sciences, University of California, Riverside I once overheard one of my graduate students, chatting to a visitor about his Masters research. "I think it's gone ...

Introducing Numerical Modeling to Undergraduate Geology Majors part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Gregory Hancock, College of William and Mary
Greg Hancock, Geology, College of William and Mary Although numerical modeling has become a significant tool in the Earth sciences, geology majors are generally not exposed to the process of model construction and ...

Computing for 3rd year Geoscience Undergraduates part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Dylan Mikesell, Boise State University
Dylan Mikesell, Geosciences, Boise State University My experience teaching computation is limited (I just started my second year as an Assistant Professor), but I use computing in all of my research. I strongly ...

Helping students tinker with the black box part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Benjamin Bratton, Vanderbilt University
Benjamin Bratton, Molecular Biology, Princeton University The increasingly quantitative and interdisciplinary nature of biological research has led us to add a BioMath Bootcamp summer course for graduate students ...

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 ...

Goals for teaching numerical integration in Calculus or Differential Equations Courses part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel, Mount Holyoke College
Alanna Hoyer-Leitzel, Mathematics and Statistics, Mount Holyoke College There's a joke about mathematicians where the punch line involves a mathematician in a room with a burning fire, a sink and a bucket. ...

Using computation to understand statistics through climatology part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Janel Hanrahan, Lyndon State College
Janel Hanrahan, Atmospheric Sciences, Lyndon State College Put simply, climate is the statistics of weather. To gain a true understanding of climate science, students must therefore have a sound understanding of ...

Cracking the Code: Understanding the Mystery behind the Computational Tool part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Marjorie Hubbard, North Carolina School of Science and Math
Marjorie Hubbard, Engineering and Technology, North Carolina School of Math and Science I have previously used MATLAB in my graduate work in computational electrophysiology and have found it to be an extremely ...

CREATING CORE COURSE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH PATHWAYS VIA MATLAB SIMBIOLOGY part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Princess Imoukhuede, Washington University in St. Louis
Princess Imoukhuede, Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign BACKGROUND University of Illinois (UIUC) lags in undergraduate research. Undergraduate research participation at the UIUC is low ...

Motivating undergraduates in the geosciences to learn programming part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Alain Plattner, California State University-Fresno
Alain Plattner, Earth and Environmental Sciences, California State University-Fresno Learning to write simple computer programs can have tremendous effects on students in the geosciences. Besides training their ...