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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 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience

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, ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities
Subject: Engineering

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 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Problem Set
Subject: Mathematics

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 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Activities, Problem Set, Project
Subject: Engineering

Stress Map
James Conder, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Use earthquakes from the global CMT catalog to look at crustal stresses in a given region of the Earth. Students will download earthquake data from an online catalog and make 2 tectonic maps. One map is of the ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Problem Set, Activities
Subject: Geoscience

Using AI as a guide to convert Scripts or M-files to APPS
Julio Hernandez, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This activity teaches educators/students to use a few of the basic concepts of AI and fast track the implementation of Scripts-to-Apps in MATLAB. The user is required to have previous knowledge using Scripts and at ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities
Subject: Engineering

Sports Ranking using Graph Theory
Cabral Balreira, Trinity University
In this project, students will use MATLAB to analyze sports game data and apply PageRank and BiasedVoter algorithms to compute team standings and analyze their differences. The particular example will be NFL

Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity, Classroom Activity
Subject: Mathematics

Using AI to modify MATLAB-Scripts to MATLAB-Apps: General solution to computational problem.
Julio Hernandez, Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico
This activity teaches educators/students to use a few of the basic concepts of AI and fast track the implementation of Scripts-to-Apps in MATLAB. The user is required to have previous knowledge using Scripts and at ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Project, Lab Activity
Subject: Engineering

's a ... FIRE! A simulation of fire caused by gender reveal parties.
Sarah Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
In this project, students create a simulation of a spreading fire through a forest using MATLAB. This simulation contains many different parameters that control the random spread. Students will complete a ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Project, Activities, Writing Assignment
Subject: Computer Science, Mathematics

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 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Lab Activity
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science