ED43D:
Teaching Geoscience with MATLAB II Posters

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Session ID#: 12619

Session Description:
Programming skills are increasingly vital for Geosciences undergraduates. How and when should we impart those skills? Should we devote a single course to the subject, or infuse every possible course with material that builds those strengths? Start at the earliest opportunity or wait until more disciplinary knowledge is available to build on? What are suitable topics for building a curriculum, within or across courses? How do we  incorporate other desiderata (e.g. general computer literacy, mathematical fluency) into a student schedule? We invite contributions from the trenches, from those who are developing and teaching computational modeling skills for undergraduates, discussions of examples, techniques, philosophies, problems and solutions. We focus specifically on sharing  curricular developments using Matlab, but we will consider contributions from the Octave community as well. All contributions must make available freely shared open-source codes, to the extent that they can be run using just a Student license of Matlab.
Primary Convener:  Frederik J Simons, Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Conveners:  Andrew M Fischer, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, TAS, Australia and Risa D Madoff, University of North Dakota, Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, Grand Forks, ND, United States
Chairs:  Andrew M Fischer, University of Tasmania, Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, Hobart, TAS, Australia and Risa D Madoff, University of North Dakota, Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, Grand Forks, ND, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Risa D Madoff, University of North Dakota, Harold Hamm School of Geology and Geological Engineering, Grand Forks, ND, United States
Index Terms:

0820 Curriculum and laboratory design [EDUCATION]
0825 Teaching methods [EDUCATION]
1906 Computational models, algorithms [INFORMATICS]
1976 Software tools and services [INFORMATICS]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Four Forms of the Fourier Transform - for Freshmen, using Matlab (125572)
Frederik J Simons, Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States and Adam C Maloof, Princeton University, Department of Geosciences, Princeton, NJ, United States
Teaching Monte Carlo Strategies for Earth System Modelling using a Guided Group-Learning Approach in the Classroom (185998)
Thorsten Wagener1, Francesca Pianosi2 and Ross A Woods2, (1)University of Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany, (2)University of Bristol, Civil Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom
Introduction to TAFI – A Matlab® toolbox for analysis of flexural isostasy (165502)
Sumant Jha, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, United States, Dennis Lee Harry, Colorado State University, Department of Geosciences, Fort Collins, CO, United States and Derek Schutt, Colorado State University, Geosciences, Fort Collins, United States
Resources and Approaches for Teaching Quantitative and Computational Skills in the Geosciences and Allied Fields (184441)
Cailin Huyck Orr, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, United States, Rory R Mcfadden, Salem State University, Salem, MA, United States, Cathryn Allen Manduca, Carleton College, SERC, Northfield, MN, United States and Lisa Kempler, MathWorks, Inc., Natick, MA, United States

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