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 ...

Matrix Coding & Decoding
Edith Aguirre, El Paso Community College
The activity provides students with a 3x3 matrix key that will be used to code and decode messages. Students will use MatLab to code, and matrix multiplication to encrypt a message. Then their encrypted message ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...