Procrustes Skull Analysis
Emily Dosmar, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyze the distribution of a set of shapes. The goal of this assignment is to compare different skull types to a reference skull to determine ...

Bouncing Ball Explorer
Duncan Carlsmith, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Exploration of the sound of a bouncing ball dropped on a hard surface, the sound recorded with a mobile phone or laptop microphone, is the basis for an accessible experiment in elementary mechanics. For ...

The Human Matrix
Sarah Patterson, Virginia Military Institute
For this activity, we will look at accessing data in a matrix and manipulating it. Students will again be arranged into several rectangular arrays. Each student will have a whiteboard to write down their assigned ...

Estimation of Elastic Properties of a Composite Laminate Using Matlab
Syd Soltani, Florida Polytechnic University
In this activity, students learn how to use simple Matlab programming to determine the missing material properties for a composite laminate.

Iterative methods for solving linear systems
Blanca Guillén, Universidad Nacional Experimental del Táchira, Mathematics
Students will learn Jacobi, Gauss-Seidel and SOR methods for solving linear systems. Students are also asked to generate the iterative matrices, decide about the convergence and compare the results obtained with ...

Simulation of a Block Sliding down a Ramp with Friction
Darren Maczka, The University of Tennessee
This activity is designed to help students gain experience implementing iterative and conditional structures in the context of a physics simulation. Students are given parameters for an object that is being ...

Controls and Robotics
Carlotta Berry, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
In this activity, students will simulate the forward kinematics on a mobile robot given an initial pose and sensor location and how it moves in the global or reference frame from an initial position to a goal ...

Intro to MATLAB Labs
James Long, Liberty University
Set of seven labs in a tutorial format to introduce MATLAB to the first-year student/programmer. Uses MATLAB for Engineering Applications, 5th edition, by William J. Palm III as a reference. Students complete the ...

Building Intuition for Fourier Series/Transforms
Jenny Magnes, Vassar College
This activity consists of two parts:1. Represent functions using Fourier series.2. Understanding how a function's properties manifest in reciprocal space.

Final Project: Plotting in MATLAB w. Loops
Jordan Bittner, Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus
In this assignment you will be asked to manipulate data using MATLAB to create a set of plots. Each chart should have the correct x-y axis labels as well as a descriptive title and legend. You will submit a pdf ...