Teaching Activities
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Balancing Chemical Reactions: Photosynthesis
Burak Aksoylu, Texas A&M University-San Antonio
This third-year linear algebra project uses photosynthesis, a chemical process essential to life, to give students practice solving systems of linear equations in MATLAB. Building on a worked example, students ...
Subject: Mathematics
Real world problem translating to a logistical sequential algorithm aligned with Chemistry and Biomedical study in the classroom and/or laboratory.
Abu Gafar Hossion, University of Bridgeport
Students in Chemistry lecture or laboratories in person (or asynchronous) in both lower and upper classes without knowing how the fundamental concepts, including hands-on activity correlate with theory, which puts ...
Subject: Chemistry
Modeling the Steady State Geothermal Gradient
Kendra Murray, Idaho State University
Students use several analytical solutions to solve for the steady-state geothermal gradient given various boundary conditions, internal heat production scenarios, and exhumation rates. This activity showcases how ...
Subject: Geoscience
Principal Component Analysis for Money Laundering Detection
Kossi Edoh, North Carolina A & T State University
The project is on principal component analysis (pca) and graph anomaly detection for money laundering. Variables such as Transaction amount, Transaction frequency, Average transaction amount, Number of ...
Subject: Computer Science, Mathematics
Digital Modeling and Performance Evaluation of a Portable Environmental Monitoring Instrument Using MATLAB/Simulink
Conroy Robinson, University of Technology, Jamaica
Students will use MATLAB and Simulink to develop a digital model of their proposed Portable Environmental Monitoring Instrument before constructing the physical prototype. The activity requires students to model ...
Subject: Engineering
Design and Evaluation of a MATLAB-Based Audio Noise-Removal System
Wardlan Borah, University of Technology, Jamaica
A recorded audio signal has been contaminated by high-frequency noise. Working in groups, students must use MATLAB to analyze the signal, identify the unwanted frequency components, design and apply an appropriate ...
Subject: Engineering
Matrix Decomposition through a Sequence of MATLAB Operations
Haiyan Tian, University of Southern Mississippi
This activity provides students with an opportunity to apply row reduction operations to a matrix as a pathway to matrix decomposition. Using basic MATLAB commands and hands-on implementation, students connect the ...
Subject: Engineering, Mathematics
Root Locus Compensator Design: A Jigsaw Activity
Tania Demonte Gonzalez, Michigan Technological University
Students use MATLAB and root-locus design to develop three compensators for the same third-order plant, then participate in a jigsaw activity to compare the designs from both a controls and client-value ...
Subject: Engineering
Analysis of Environmental and Biological Datasets
Husile Bai, Vanderbilt University
This activity is a sequence of MATLAB-based environmental statistics exercises that develops students' computational and statistical reasoning through analysis of environmental and biological datasets. ...
Subject: Geoscience, Environmental Science
Find, Measure, and Model a Pendulum!
Olivia Heui Young Park, University of Hartford
The students will look for a simple pendulum from their daily lives (such as keys jingling from a string, bag of groceries, etc.), take measurements to find its frequency, and compare the frequency to the ...
Subject: Engineering