Challenges to Teaching Computations in New Times
Luis M Vicente, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
Luis M Vicente, Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Sciences, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico Luis M. Vicente, currently serving as the Director, and Associate Professsor of the Electrical, ...

How Computation and Modelling Tools Can Counteract Compartmental Learning for Engineering Students
Paul Campbell, University of Technology, Jamaica
Paul Campbell, School of Engineering, University of Technology, Jamaica Curricula of most undergraduate engineering programmes comprise several categories of courses, the sum of which, it is presumed, makes for a ...

Teaching Calculus with MATLAB
Muhammad Akhtar, El Paso Community College
MUHAMMAD S AKHTAR, , El Paso Community College Teaching Calculus with MATLAB  Introduction Many engineering students start their education at a community college and then transfer to a four-year institution to ...

Computation Essay
Lazaros Kikas, University of Detroit Mercy
Lazaros Kikas, , University of Detroit Mercy Part of my duties in teaching mathematics at the University of Detroit Mercy is to teach the first course of the Calculus sequence. The ideas can be quite complex and ...

Experimental Mathematics for Teaching and Learning Mathematics
Namyong Lee, Minnesota State University-Mankato
Namyong Lee, Mathematics & Statistics, Minnesota State University-Mankato Downloadable version of this essayExperimental Mathematics for Teaching and Learning Mathematics (Acrobat (PDF) 186kB Nov8 23)

The hidden learning outcomes of an Earth's Climate course with computer lab
i gouirand, the UWI
Isabelle Gouirand, , Isabelle Gouirand, Environmental Science, The university of the West IndiesI integrated the University of the West Indies 15 years ago as a lecturer in Atmospheric Science. However, as a ...

Teaching Computation in Earth Science Laboratories
Jim Boyle, Western Connecticut State University
Jim Boyle, Physics, Meteorology and Physical Oceanography, Western Connecticut State University The pillars of science are: observation, theory and numerical simulation. These pillars drive understanding and ...

Incorporating computational skills into undergraduate Geoscience courses
Jill Pearse, California State University-Long Beach
Jill Pearse, Earth Science, California State University-Long Beach Geoscience is unusual in the STEM disciplines in that it applies all the basic sciences in an interdisciplinary way, and there is no consensus on ...

The STEM Divide
Walaa K Abdallah, Manhattan College
Walaa Abdallah, Chemical Engineering, Manhattan College In Manhattan College, MATLAB is introduced to freshman engineering students in a course called ENGS 116 – Introduction to Engineering Computation. Students ...

How Computation and Modelling Tools Can Counteract Compartmental Learning for Engineering Students
Paul Campbell, University of Technology, Jamaica
Paul Campbell, School of Engineering, University of Technology, Jamaica Curricula of most undergraduate engineering programmes comprise several categories of courses, the sum of which, it is presumed, makes for a ...

Importance of MATLAB in engineering part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Miguel Goni Rodrigo, University of South Florida
Miguel Goni Rodrigo, Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida There has been a significant shift in engineering from in-lab experiments and testing to numerical simulations. In order to run such ...

MATLAB is an Effective Tools for Solving Electric Circuit Problems part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, California State Polytechnic University-Pomona
Zekeriya Aliyazicioglu, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Cal Poly Pomona Last couple of years, I have been focusing to teach low level electric circuit courses using flipped classroom approaches. I have ...

Teaching Quantum Mechanics with MATLAB part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2016:Essays
Paul Kassebaum, MathWorks
Paul Kassebaum, MathWorks - updated February 2021 by Temo Vekua, MathWorks Please refer to the files attached to this SERC submission, which includes formulae and images that could not be included in this text ...

Teaching Basic Problem Decomposition and Algorithm Design Skills part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Mandoye Ndoye, Tuskegee University
Mandoye Ndoye, Electrical and Computer Enngineering, Tuskegee University With the advent of the data science era, there is a great and immediate need for the training of engineers that can use principled methods ...

MATLAB as a Tool for Teaching and Learning of High Performance Computing Applications part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Sani Abba, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University
Sani Abba, Department of Mathematical Sciences (Computer Science), Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (Federal University of Technology), Nigeria. Developing computational skills is very essential in the ...

When will I ever use this? part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Ivette Chuca, El Paso Community College
IVETTE CHUCA, Mathematics, El Paso Community College "When will I ever use this", is a questions asked by many student. This question occurs frequently and can either encourage or discourage a student ...

Overcoming Challenges in Teaching Computation part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, California State University-Sacramento
Sayonita Ghosh Hajra, Mathematics and Statistics, California State University-Sacramento One of the biggest challenges in teaching multi-variable calculus is the visualization of 3D spaces. In single-variable ...

Use of Matlab to reinforce concepts of Compton effect part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Eric Ehler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Eric Ehler, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities I recall on my time as a first year graduate student taking a course on radiologic physics and radiation dosimetry and remember well seeing this equation: (d_e ...

MATLAB is an "easy programming" tool to each engineering discipline part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Yevgeny Gayev, National aviation university
Yevgeny Gayev, Aerospace Control Systems Department, National Aviation University, Kyiv, Ukraine I am an insistent propagator of active methods in teaching of everything. Of course, in teaching Physics but also in ...

Computational modeling in geochemistry and petrology (and the geosciences more broadly) part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Kendra Lynn, University of Delaware
Kendra J. Lynn, Earth Sciences, University of Delaware Vision for teaching computational skills more broadly in the geosciences Sophisticated modeling skills are becoming highly valued in the geosciences. ...