Teaching Activities
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Subject: Geoscience
Lab for traversing 2D Matricies using nested loops
Navid Shaghaghi, Santa Clara University
The activity starts with the creation of a large 2d matrix with random numbers (or letters) that represent the proteins needed to build hydro-codons and then asks the students to traverse the matrix in all 8 ...
Subject: Computer Science, Engineering, Biology
Analyzing GPS time series data in Central California
Jill Pearse, California State University-Long Beach
This activity is designed for advanced undergraduate Geology students in a Data Analysis course, to introduce them to time series analysis. No programming experience is assumed, but students are expected to have ...
Subject: Geoscience
Curve Fitting with Parametric Splines using the Artwork "The Girl with the Pearl Earring"
Bree Ettinger, Emory University
This activity focuses on curve fitting using parametric splines, a technique commonly used in numerical analysis to approximate complex curves. In this assignment, students are tasked with selecting a minimal ...
Subject: Mathematics
Morse Code Audio
John Rogers, Benedictine College
This is an assignment in Audio and Image Processing course.The course is just being developed.The assignment requires students to write functions that are bulding block to generating Morse Code audio.
Subject: Computer Science, Engineering, Physics
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 ...
Subject: Physics, Engineering
Boiled Egg
Paul Campbell, University of Technology, Jamaica
The Student is to learn how to estimate the time that it will take to boil/cook an egg
Subject: Engineering
Detect phishing emails Using Machine Learning Model
Hongmei Chi, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
In this hands-on lab, participants will explore the application of machine learning techniques to detect phishing emails using a dataset sourced from Kaggle. The lab will guide attendees through the entire process, ...