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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Teaching Computation in MATLAB: An Educational Journey
Yih-Choung Yu, Lafayette College
Yih-Choung Yu, , Lafayette College My journey into teaching computation in MATLAB started with an appreciation of its versatility and effectiveness in solving complex mathematical problems from my research ...

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 ...

The Struggle of Teaching Math Problems in a Computer Science Classroom
xiaoyuan suo, Webster University
Xiaoyuan Suo (Sue), Computer and Information Sciences, Webster University I specialize in teaching programming classes and have undertaken several projects related to instructing high-performance computing ...

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)

Challenges in Teaching Computer Sciences Engineering Courses with Matlab & Simulink
Silvio Simani, University of Ferrara
Silvio Simani, Engineering, University of Ferrara In recent years, we have been working with students who seem to be lacking in abstraction ability. It implies that they seem unable of transforming a real-life ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computation and Assessment part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2018:Essays
Michael Groves, California State University-Fullerton
Michael Groves, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California State University-Fullerton I teach quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, kinetics and statistical mechanics. These courses typically have problems that are very ...

The Role of Computation in 21st Century part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Today, perhaps the most desired skill required is computation. We see the application of computation in Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, and Computer aided drug design, financial models, earth observations, ...

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 ...

Using MATLAB to improve student understanding of vector calculus part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:Teaching with MATLAB 2015:Essays
Anantha Aiyyer, North Carolina State University
Anantha Aiyyer, Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University I work in the field of atmospheric sciences. My research involves analysis of data from observations and running numerical ...

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 ...

Foundational computation for first-year physics undergraduates part of Teaching Computation with MATLAB:MATLAB Workshop 2019:Essays
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Duncan Carlsmith, Physics, University of Wisconsin-Madison The AAPT/APS Joint Task Force on Undergraduate Physics Education report [1] examines the motivations for, goals of, and barriers to including computation ...

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. ...