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 ...

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 ...

Garbage Out? Verification of Reliable Computations part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Wendy Thomas, University of Washington-Seattle Campus
Wendy Thomas, Bioengineering, University of Washington-Seattle Campus What is Verification? When we or our students use a computer to solve a mathematical problem in our class or research, how do we know if the ...

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 ...

Reaching Beyond Skills to Cognitive Development in Teaching Quantitative Thinking with MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Essays
Risa Madoff, University of North Dakota-Main Campus
Risa Madoff, Geology and Geological Engineering, University of North Dakota-Main Campus In teaching, I have used MATLAB in a lab tied to a Geomorphology course where no prior knowledge or experience with MATLAB ...

Using MATLAB to Enrich Elementary Linear Algebra Course part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Sandra Fital-Akelbek, Weber State University
Sandra Fital-Akelbek, Mathematics, Weber State University Linear Algebra has broad applications in various disciplines, for example, in computer graphics, in modeling biological or social systems, or in ...

Learn to Teach Computational Thinking Skills part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Charles Lee, California State University-Fullerton
Charles Lee, Mathematics, California State University-Fullerton Computational thinking (CT) skills are super essential in STEM careers and should be developed with great emphasis through various levels of college ...