Stress Map part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
James Conder, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale
Use earthquakes from the global CMT catalog to look at crustal stresses in a given region of the Earth. Students will download earthquake data from an online catalog and make 2 tectonic maps. One map is of the ...

Data Representation in MATLAB: From Raw Data to Insight part of Past Workshops: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 ...

Dimensional Analysis and Flow Visualization Using MATLAB part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2025:Activities
Kianoosh Yousefi, The University of Texas at Dallas
In this MATLAB-based activity, students develop two general computational modules, one for automated dimensional analysis using the Buckingham π theorem, and another for streamline and pathline visualization for ...

Control Systems using Simulink part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2025:Activities
Kelvin Loutan, The University of Trinidad and Tobago
Analytically solving differential equations representing dynamic systems can sometimes distract from the physical implications of the model. In this module, the dynamic equations of a DC motor are used as a ...

ERP Peak Detective: Introduction to Event-Related Potential Analysis with MATLAB part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2025:Activities
Brian Rivera, St 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 ...

Example False position Method Problem in MATLAB Live Script part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2025:Activities
Adrian Quesada Martinez, Instituto Tecnologico de Costa Rica
Interactive MATLAB activity to implement and analyze the False Position Method (Regula Falsi) for finding roots of nonlinear equations. Includes theoretical introduction, step-by-step graphical visualization, ...

Measuring voting districts and distributions part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop 2024:Activities
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt San Antonio College
This project-based activity allows students to use MATLAB to analyze voting district boundaries and their relationship to social and environmental justice. Students recreate geographic borders, calculate centroids, ...

Exploring hypothesis-driven research using Arduino boards and Matlab part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Sara Wilson, University of Kansas
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 ...

Procrustes Skull Analysis part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2022:Activities
Emily Dosmar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyze the distribution of a set of shapes. The goal of this assignment is to compare different skull types to a reference skull to determine ...

Static stability: mechanisms and prestress modes part of Past Workshops:MATLAB Workshop October 2021:Activities
Mettupalayam Sivaselvan, University at Buffalo
Summary: The assignment is about detecting structural stability in a 3D truss by applying linear algebra concepts such as rank, column-space and null-space of a matrix. Outcomes: * Students should learn linear ...