COMPARISON OF R AND MATLAB SIMULINK in Educating High School Students with ODE Modeling Skills

Geng, Jianming; Chen, Kaiyuan; Wang, Nengxin; Ling, Sihan; Guo, Muqi; Huang, Zuyi

doi:10.18260/2-1-370.660-105620

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“…In the process of teaching "Mathematical Modeling and MATLAB", teachers should guide students to look at the world and society through the innovative method of mathematical modeling, and apply this innovative method to their learning and life. Schools can select relevant teachers to offer remedial classes for students who are interested in modeling or directly offer professional courses in mathematical modeling [11]. Using the principle of comparison, students of different ages and grades are selected for mathematical modeling training.…”

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The Application of MATLAB in the Mathematics Teaching of Computer Majors

Wang

2024

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Under the background of new engineering courses, professional mathematics teaching needs to keep pace with the times and improve the progressiveness and scientific nature of teaching methods.In order to improve the mathematics teaching effect of computer majors, This article constructs a new teaching environment through simulation system construction methods, analyzes the shortcomings of traditional teaching models through comparative analysis methods, and improves the teaching platform based on the actual needs of mathematics professionals in current society. The curve interpolation technology is improved, and a forward-looking real-time Matlab simulation algorithm is designed. Through the evaluation and analysis, it can be seen that the mathematics teaching system for computer majors based on MATLAB can effectively improve the intuitive effect of advanced mathematics teaching, and help to improve the teaching quality of advanced mathematics.

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The Application of MATLAB in the Mathematics Teaching of Computer Majors

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2024

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“…While MATLAB Simulink offers a friendly user-interface for high-school students to develop ODE models, MATLAB is not free. The R language was used by the instructor to train high school students with similar modeling skills [16]. It turned out that the R language, which is totally free, offers another good option for students to implement modeling skills.…”

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“…• The improvement of the project participants in their skills for solving ODE models and in their experience in the related knowledge like bioreactors and microbial fuel cells (taking the survey from [16] as an example in Table 2); • Open-ended questions on what the project participants like/dislike the most about the project.…”

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Design a Modeling STEM Outreach Project to Promote High-School Students' Interest in Math-Related Research

Huang

Middle Atlantic ASEE Section Spring 2021 Conference Proceedings

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Since the high-school students in the US are following behind their peers in certain countries in their math performance, it is urgent to expose high-school students in the US to engineering-related research in which students are inspired to use mathematics tools to understand and solve engineering problems. In this work, we introduce a project that has been developed since Summer 2014 for high-school students to simulate and design bioreactors like microbial fuel cells in computers. MATLAB Simulink is the major platform used in this project, as it allows students to build ordinary different equation (ODE) models in a modular fashion. Since a microbial fuel cell converts organic compounds in the wastewater into electricity, it offers a sustainable approach for converting wastes into energy. This may inspire high-school students' awareness of environment sustainability. Four historical versions of the modeling project have been introduced in the past few years. In particular, the project was offered to high-school students on site in Summer 2014 (one students). It was converted to a purely on-line version in Summer 2016 (four students). The project was then introduced in a book along with recording-lectures in 2019 (seven students). The last time for implementing this project was in Winter 2020 (twelve students). A self-paced study club was built in Winter 2020 to offer high-school students a chance to do STEM research during the COVID-19 pandemic. The students' work has been thoroughly evaluated and feedback from students for each version of project has been collected. Students' self-evaluations from the survey, along the evaluation of the instructor on their work, indicate that their skills in ODE model simulation and MATLAB Simulink were improved after the project. The self-paced club format, partnering with help sections, was the most positively received in students' comments for openended questions.

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“…The questions in Table 2 are directly related to the thirteen objectives associated with the nine EOP core values (as shown in the previous subsection, i.e., the instruction approaches). The questionnaire shown in Tables 1 and 2 was designed on the basis of those from the literature [6], [8]. The mean value of each item was then presented to visualize the results.…”

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Develop the Mindset of Engineering for One Planet in Chemical Process Control

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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It is important to incorporate environmental, economic, and social considerations when we design control systems. While fossil energy will be used up in the future, converting solar energy to electric energy provides one potential solution to sustain the growth of the world population. The batteries play an essential role in electric energy storage, especially for electric vehicles (e.g., Tesla EV). The switch from traditional energy resources to renewable energy brings challenges and opportunities to chemical engineers who generally work in the oil & gas industry. To make students aware of these challenges and opportunities, a project was developed in the course of Chemical Process Control, which is the last required course taken by senior students in Chemical and Biological Engineering, to develop the mindset of Engineering for One Planet (EOP) in students. In this project, lectures were given to students on the nine core values of EOP, including Systems Thinking, Environmental Literacy, Social Responsibility, Responsible Business and Economy, Environmental Impact Measurement, Materials Choice, Design Mindsets, Critical Thinking, and Communication and Teamwork. After students were given the training materials on EOP Framework after the midterm, including handouts, videos and one lecture on the core concepts of EOP, three students formed a team to provide a two-page proposal on the scope of the project and the alignment of the proposed project with the nine core values of EOP. On the basis of the instructor's feedback, each team started to work on the project and submitted a report summarizing the obtained results by the end of the semester. An anonymous survey was given in class to collect students' feedback through multiple-choice questions on "how the EOP project helps students in learning process control" and "the effectiveness of the project in building the EOP mindset for students". Personal conversations between the instructor and students were conducted to collect information on "the advantages and drawbacks of the EOP project" were also included in the survey. Both the instructor's evaluation and students' self-evaluation indicated that students generally learned and applied the EOP mindsets in their EOP projects. However, they were reluctant to recommend the EOP projects to other students, as students needed to learn EOP techniques like environmental sustainability and life cycle analysis that are not directly related to the focus of Chemical Process Control. Additional instruction videos/materials on EOP may be helpful. In addition, there should be multiple courses in the curriculum to introduce EOP mindset. It is challenging to convince students to learn and use EOP skills just in one course.

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COMPARISON OF R AND MATLAB SIMULINK in Educating High School Students with ODE Modeling Skills

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

The Application of MATLAB in the Mathematics Teaching of Computer Majors

The Application of MATLAB in the Mathematics Teaching of Computer Majors

Design a Modeling STEM Outreach Project to Promote High-School Students' Interest in Math-Related Research

Develop the Mindset of Engineering for One Planet in Chemical Process Control

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