Exploring Fish Diversity in Australia's Marine Ecoregions
Andrew Fischer, university of tasmania
This activity accomplishes two tasks. First it teaches students about the concepts of species richness and biodiversity using a global data set of marine fish diversity. Second, it teaches them about application ...

Introduction to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)
Michelle Isenhour, Naval Postgraduate School
This activity introduces graduate-level students to one-way (single-factor) analysis of variance (ANOVA). The students are familiar with MATLAB, but have little-to-no experience with ANOVA. The activity is ...

Calculating and using Unit Hydrograph using Matlab
Negin Hayatbini, University of California-Irvine; Alexandre Martinez, University of California-Irvine
We are using the concept of Unit Hydrograph to understand the behavior of a watershed following a rain event and to calculate the runoff following any rainfall event.

Developing a hybrid root-finding algorithm
Melisa Hendrata, California State University-Los Angeles
In this project, students will write a code implementing the Bisection and Secant algorithms for approximating a zero of a given function within a certain error tolerance. They will then write a hybrid algorithm ...

Simulating Passive Properties of Neurons Using Matlab
Michael Wright, California State University-Sacramento
This lab activity simulates a fundamental concept in cellular neuroscience; namely that all neurons can be modeled as circuits (i.e., the equivalent circuit) composed of resistors and capacitors in parallel. The ...

Assignment on Runge-Kutta Methods
Dong Zhou, California State University-Los Angeles
This is a sample homework problem in a senior elective course on topics in applied mathematics. This particular problem requires the students to program forward Euler, backward Euler and an explicit 2-stage 2nd ...

Visualizing symmetry elements for crystal classes using MATLAB
Jeremy Deans, University of Southern Mississippi
This assignment provides students practice in a mineralogy class to learn symmetry motifs, symmetry operations, and crystal classes by using the MTEX toolbox in MATLAB. The students will load the MTEX toolbox and ...

Cool Roof
Eugene Mahmoud, Mt. San Antonio College
This project is a hands-on, open-ended, collaborative assessment of students' abilities to collect numerical data, and develop mathematical models of naturally occurring phenomena. Students design physical ...

Traffic Data Interpolation
Cynthia Flores, California State University-Channel Islands
The goal of this assignment is for students to demonstrate understanding of numerical interpolation through an intensive writing prompt. Two methods are implemented in MATLAB, Lagrange interpolation, and ...

MATLAB Explorations
Joan Weiss, Fairfield University
"MATLAB Exploration" assignments encourage students to use MATLAB as a tool to explore mathematical concepts. Two sample assignments are included. One is a brief introductory assignment for students in ...