Group 7

This team has people with teaching focused on mechanical engineering and mining engineering.

Navid Shaghaghi
Mingli Han
Wei Tong
Natasha Smith
Louis Woodhams
Legun Emmanwori

Learning outcomes:

- Develop scripts for visualization of scientific data

- Describe real world problems using mathematical equations

- Apply numerical tools to solve systems of equations that model physical systems

- Taking apart complex problems and breaking them into simpler steps

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Example learning outcomes:

Mingli:

- Analyze coordinate transformations in 3D to find a relationship between the joint positions and end effector position

Louie:

- Break down complicated problems into simple steps that can be solved on a computer
- Generate 2d and 3d plots to visualize data

Specific:

- Memorize the formula for Euler's method

- Understand intuitively how Euler's method approximates the solution

- Use Euler's method to solve nonlinear ODEs with initial values

- Recognize similarities between Euler's method and a first-order Taylor polynomial

- Evaluate error and stability of solutions using Euler's method by comparing to analytical solutions or more accurate approximate solutions

Wei:

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Asessment

How to assess student performance and learning?

  • Completion of activities: "do it until you get it right"
    • Onramps
    • Matlab grader
    • But did the student do it or did ChatGPT?
      • In person activities, demo at end
  • Oral examinations - can you explain what you did
    • good for small courses
  • Paper tests/quizzes
    • Students write code or do one iteration of some numerical method or...
    • students get sample code and have to determine output (could be MC)
    • students often complain about this
  • Give students a way to demo their code - show class how to use it
  • Small group projects (3-4)
    • some students may freeload
    • hidden peer evaluations
    • self-evaluation
    • students present a poster, have to rotate presenting
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