Battleship
Blain Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
This activity aims to engage students in a low-stakes activity to build confidence and review basic topics including indexing matrices and vectors, extracting data from a matrix, operating on data from a matrix, ...

Data Visualization and Phase Identification through Stacked Plots
Sujat Sen, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
In this classroom activity, students will take experimentally collected powder X-Ray diffraction (XRD) data they have acquired from a laboratory exercise and plot it collectively as a stacked plot against known ...

ROC models for memory
weiwei zhang, University of California-Riverside
This teaching activity provides a visual illustration of several major cognitive models of human memory using Receiver Operating Characteristics (ROCs) and Matlab. It is designed to show the students how various ...

Example of a First Order Temperature Instrument in a Practical Situation
Luis M Vicente, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This is an example adapted from the textbook "Measurement and Instrumentation Principles from Alan S. Morris". It shows the power of Matlab when working with Differential Equations, Laplace Transforms, ...

Downloading data and data manipulation
i gouirand, the UWI
The purpose of this activity is to demonstrate the use of Matlab commands for opening and processing climate data. The climate data is retrieved from https://iri.columbia.edu as a netcdf file. The main objective is ...

Physico-chemical Oceanographic data analysis
Most Israt Jahan Mili, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth
This activity is a part of the course that can be used for either physical oceanography (CTD data profiling) or chemical oceanography lab exercise. This is included with the real-time field sampling data that was ...

The zeroes of a function and optimization
Kossi Edoh, North Carolina A & T State University
Students will determine the zeros of a function using bisection, Newton's, secant, and inverse quadratic interpolation methods. Replace zero with other values and solve a similar problem. Use the methods to ...

2D Projectile Motion
Ali Tabei, University of Northern Iowa
In this class activity, we will solve for the motion of an object in more than one dimension. Because motion along each axis is independent, we treat this problem as two separate numerical calculations in 1 ...

Data classification using Support Vector Machine and geographical data plotting
Ruchita Sharma, Morgan State University
This activity is designed for undergraduate students to plot geographically various data points using MATLAB representing various locations or countries. The idea stemmed from presenting Coronavirus data of 176 ...

Loops and Applications
Dong Zhou, California State University-Los Angeles
This is a lecture that introduces students to loops in MATLAB (for, while) and some applications (calculating a finite series, creating animation with loops). In the after class assignment, students are asked to ...