Measuring voting districts and distributions
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, ...

Solving Systems of Equations
Conroy Robinson, University of Technology, Jamaica
This activity is geared towards teaching students how to use MATLAB to solve systems of simultaneous equations, simplify and plot graphs of polynomials.

Taylor Series and Efficient Calculations of Transcendental Functions
Ethan Duckworth, Loyola College in Maryland
This module helps students learn/relearn about Taylor series, the remainder theorem, symbolic tools in MATLAB, and writing efficient functions for calculating transcendental functions. Students are reminded about ...

Numerical Simulation Basics: Part II – Boundary Conditions & Numerical Stability for a Finite-Difference Equation
Jim Boyle, Western Connecticut State University
This is the second and last activity teaching numerical simulation basics to students in a junior-level physical oceanography course. In the first activity students program solutions for a 1st order differential ...

Classification Exercise - Pattern Recognition
Luis M Vicente, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This exercise contains instructions for a university project related to pattern recognition using MATLAB. Students are tasked with testing a pre-designed classifier, analyzing results, and submitting a detailed ...

Design a basketball shooting machine
Richard Goldberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
In this assignment, students will determine the appropriate exit velocity from a basketball shooting machine as it passes the ball back to the shooter on the free throw line. Students will simulate the trajectory ...

Forward and inverse kinematics of a robot arm
Louis Woodhams, Washington University in St. Louis
Students will cover the derivation of the forward kinematics of a robot arm with an end effector (effector position as a function of joint angle) and write a forward kinematics function. They will then cover ...

Shallow Foundation Design and Settlement Analysis Using MATLAB
Hejintao Huang, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
This project-based teaching activity guides students in calculating the ultimate and allowable bearing capacities of shallow foundations using Terzaghi's and General Bearing Capacity Equations for various ...

Hurricane Time Series Analysis
Henry Potter, Texas A & M University
This activity uses Atlantic hurricane data from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Students will run the code provided to produce figures (scatter plots, time series, and histograms) that ...

Applications of the Power Method
Hoa Nguyen, Trinity University
This activity is designed for a course in Linear Algebra for undergraduate students. The focus is the Power Method and two applications. The Power Method is used to find the dominant eigenvalue (if it exists) of a ...