Teaching Activities
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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, ...
Subject: Engineering
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: Engineering, Physics
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 ...
Subject: Engineering
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 ...
Subject: Engineering
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.
Subject: Engineering
Aitken's Method and Superconvergence
Namyong Lee, Minnesota State University-Mankato
This activity aims to explore Newton's method's efficiency for various cases. We also provide some ideas on improving or accelerating the convergence through numerical experiments.
Subject: Mathematics, Engineering
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
Modeling Solar Panel Output and Battery Storage Using Real World Data in Matlab
Jason Smith, Michigan State University
Activity Description: This project involves designing and analyzing a home solar panel system using MATLAB. Students are tasked with calculating energy output, battery storage levels, and energy needs over time ...
Subject: Engineering
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 ...
Subject: Engineering
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 ...
Subject: Engineering