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, ...

Taylor Series and Efficient Calculations of Transcendental Functions
Ethan Duckworth, Loyola University 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shallow Foundation Design and Settlement Analysis Using MATLAB
Hejintao Huang, The 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...