Data Analysis Activity Using MATLAB part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Michael Ray, California State University-Sacramento
In this activity students will develop a model of air resistance, then perform an experiment using coffee filters, rulers and a stopwatch to test it. They will collect the data, then analyze it and produce a high ...

Bottle Design via MATLAB with Volume and Surface Area part of MATLAB Workshop 2025:Activities
Bree Ettinger, Emory University
In this activity, students design a bottle silhouette using parametric splines in MATLAB and compute its volume and surface area using numerical integration. The project connects numerical methods and computation ...

ERP Peak Detective: Introduction to Event-Related Potential Analysis with MATLAB part of MATLAB Workshop 2025:Activities
Brian Rivera, Saint Olaf College
This scaffolded laboratory activity introduces students with minimal programming experience to Event-Related Potential (ERP) analysis using MATLAB. Students progress from interactive visual exploration of neural ...

Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics Project part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Dan Burleson, The University of Texas at Dallas
This activity is a project designed to introduce undergraduate chemical engineering students to chemical engineering thermodynamics in the context of MATLAB. The project requires students to learn concepts they ...

Conduction and Convection in a Fin of Uniform Cross Section part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Yuxin Zhang, Washington State University-Tri Cities
Conduction and convection are two important modes of heat transfer. To understand the mechanisms of these two types of heat transfer processes, we study the temperature distribution in a fin of uniform cross ...

Example Bisection Method Problem in MATLAB Grader part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Roche de Guzman, Hofstra University
Here's an example of a text book problem in Numerical Methods that was converted to a MATLAB Grader assignment to assess students in a more automated and interactive way. Other problems can be modeled and ...

Data Representation in MATLAB: From Raw Data to Insight part of MATLAB Workshop 2025:Activities
Ray Senior, University of Technology, Jamaica
This activity is a hands-on computational lab where students import, validate, inspect, and visualize three heterogeneous data types (spreadsheets, audio, images) to discover MATLAB's unified array-based data ...

Exploring hypothesis-driven research using Arduino boards and Matlab part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Sara Wilson, University of Kansas Main Campus
In this activity, students explore hypothesis-driven research through the development of an experiment using Arduino Uno style microcontroller boards and Matlab. This project encourages students to develop a ...

Solving a Simple Drug Delivery Model Using Analytical, Linear Algebra, and Numeric Approaches part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Activities
Matthew Leineweber, San Jose State University
The delivery of orally ingested drugs, such as pills and capsules, can be roughly modeled as a system of first-order ordinary differential equations (ODEs). This type of "drug-delivery model" can be ...

Physical Activity and Heart Rates part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Jennifer Jordan, Virginia Commonwealth University
This problem is an assessment of several computational methods being pulled together to solve a complex problem for biomedical engineering students. Students need to use mock clinical data to compute whether study ...