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    SIMIODE Spring 2024 Webinars - WikiModel
    WikiModel is cloud-based application and requires no installation and is run via a web-browser to facilitate rapid implementation. Equations are typed in as they appear in a textbook. ODEs are...

    Keywords: modelingSoftwaretoolapplicationWikiModelmodeling cycle

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    A Modified Template for Biographies of Diverse STEM and STEM Education Professionals
    This resource shares a modified template that was created to provide meaningful inclusion in science. The template attends to the importance of the cognitive and the emotional and important...

    Keywords: stemdiversityinclusionNASABLACK SCIENTISTS IN STEMbiographiesblack STEM professionalsdiverse scientists

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    A Momentum-First Approach to Newton’s Second Law
    Students frequently struggle with seeing the connection between forces and motion in introductory physics. This lesson is part of a combined momentum and kinematics unit that first teaches...

    Keywords: group workMomentumNewton's Laws

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    Science “Fails”: A Bank of Historical Examples for Learning From Failure in Science
    Learning from failure is critically important to the processes of scientific inquiry, discovery, and invention. However, students are not routinely taught how to reflect on, learn from, and...

    Keywords: metacognitionScience process skillsLearning from failurepower and privilegestudent wellbeing

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    Plant-microbial mutualisms in canopy gap recovery: How do soil microbial symbionts help tropical forests recover from treefall gaps?
    This module uses tropical plant-soil microbial interactions in canopy gaps as a lens to better understand species interactions and disturbance ecology, while showing how scientists study these...

    Keywords: forest ecologyPlant Ecologynutrient cyclingmicrobestropical forestsDisturbances

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    2017-Varanis-Mereles-Mathematical Model of a Vehicle Crash A Case Study
    The model proposed in this paper allows one to obtain the parameters of the system, and then compare them with the ones obtained experimentally to test the suitability of the model with the vehicle...

    Keywords: case studyRunge-Kuttaspring mass dampervehicle crash

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    2015-Dios-EtAl-How Engineers deal with Mathematics solving Differential Equations
    The students of fourth course, of the bachelor’s degree in Computer Sciences or Industrial Engineering at the University of Salamanca (Spain), they learn mathematics solving real problems with the...

    Keywords: assessmentengineering educationSimulink

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    2008-Ahmed_Mohameden-Solving initial-value second order ordinary differential equations on an Excel spreadsheet
    This paper presents a friendly method of solving initial-value second order differential equations (DEs) analytically on a MS Excel© workbook.

    Keywords: ExcelSpreadsheet

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    2012-Brian_Ingalls-Mathematical Modelling in Systems Biology An Introduction
    This is a comprehensive text with much biology background to motivate the mathematical modeling, exercises and answers, and many rich examples.

    Keywords: spatialsensitivity analysisgene regulatory networksstochasticbifurcationmetabolic networkselectrophysiologytransductionrate lawsbiochemical reactions

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    2015-Dan_Sloughte-Notes on Diffy Qs Differential Equations for Engineers
    This is a calculus book with the last chapter devoted to ordinary differential equations topics. The effort begins with a study of numerical methods and goes through traditional technique strategies.

    Keywords: Numerical Methodspendulumtext

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    2011-Steven_Desjardins-Remi_Vaillancourt-Ordinary_Differential_Equations_Laplace_Transforms_and_Numerical_Methods_for_Engineers
    This text is packed with worked out presentations, problems, and exercises (with solutions) and MatLab code. There is sufficient detail and attention to topics to more than address interests/needs...

    Keywords: modelingtextbookmatlabengineeringLaplace transform

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    2017-Russell+Herman-A_First_Course_in_Differential_Equations_for_Scientists_and_Engineers
    This is a self-published text book with excellent coverage and solid mathematics and theory to support applications.

    Keywords: textbookengineeringapplications

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    1-012-Sublimation-Modeling Scenario
    We offer data on the sublimation of dry ice (carbon dioxide) collected in a classroom setting so that students can model the rate of change in the mass of a small solid carbon dioxide block with a...

    Keywords: sublimationdry ice

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    1-100-EngineeringDemographics-ModelingScenario
    Students show how models can be used to examine social issues. The students examine three different models and use numerical methods to apply each model to demographic data for the percentage of...

    Keywords: logisticpopulationImproved Euler MethodGompertzdemographicswomenautonomous

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    3-101-SpringMassFirstTry-NoResistance-ModelingScenario
    Students build a model based on their perceptions of what the solution should look like for a simple spring mass system with no damping.

    Keywords: frequencymassoscillationundampedspring constantspring\Single Degree of Freedom System

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    3-102-SpringMassDamped-ModelingScenario
    Students build a model based on their perceptions of what the solution should look like for a simple spring mass system with damping.

    Keywords: frequencymassoscillationstiffnessspring constantspring\dampedSingle Degree of Freedom Systemcoefficient

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    3-105-FrequencyResponse-ModelingScenario
    We describe the frequency response to a second order differential equation with a driving function as the maximum steady state solution amplitude and perform some analyses in this regard.

    Keywords: transient dynamicscircuitspring massdriverfrequency responseamplitudesteady state

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    5-040-TunedMassDamper-Part-I-Modeling Scenario
    We offer an opportunity to build mathematical models to mitigate dangerous displacements in structures using structural improvements called Tuned Mass Dampers. We model the motion of the original...

    Keywords: structurespring-mass-dashpotspring massearthquakevibrationtuned mass tunerrestoring forcecontroldampe

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    Corrosion and Space Travel with Dr. Eliza Montgomery
    We were able to sit down with Dr. Eliza Montgomery, the Materials Engineer and Corrosion Subject Matter expert at NASA, to talk about her path in science and what she does!

    Keywords: EngineersNASA

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    "Got Algae?" A Sorting Game for Introducing the Weird and Wonderful Diversity of Algae
    Algae are a fascinating and diverse organismal group, with global ecological importance, a storied evolutionary history and deep connections to both contemporary and historical human societies. Yet...

    Keywords: phylogenyBiodiversityphotosynthesisalgaeseaweedmonophyly

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