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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 ...

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

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 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Lab Activity, Activities
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 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Problem Set, Lab Activity
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 ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities
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.

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Activities, Problem Set
Subject: Computer Science, Engineering, Physics

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

Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Problem Set, Activities
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, ...

Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Project, Lab Activity

Numerical calculation of the allowed wavefunctions in a one-dimensional infinite potential well
Marie Lopez del Puerto, University of St. Thomas (MN)
Numerical calculation of the allowed wavefunctions in a one-dimensional infinite potential well

Resource Type: Activities: Activities