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    Calling Bullshit DCS 105 Bates College RByte Worksheets
    These are handout worksheets for your in-class RByte activities.

    Keywords: RActivityGoogle CoLabCalling BullshitRByteData PracticeCoding SkillsSkill development

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    A Customizable Inquiry-Based Statistics Teaching Application for Introductory Biology Students
    Building strong quantitative skills prepares undergraduate biology students for successful careers in science and medicine. While math and statistics anxiety can negatively impact student learning...

    Keywords: introductory biologyQuantitative reasoningInclusive teachingauthentic inquiryInferential statisticsInstructional scaffolding

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    Snapshot Serengeti: Implementing an online module about Serengeti wildlife ecology in a community-college ecology course
    This resource describes the implementation plan for an undergraduate ecology course at Muscatine Community College, Iowa, of an online module featuring a database on Serengeti wildlife populations....

    Keywords: ecologywildlifewildlife managementWildlife ecology

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    2010-Kijek-Kijek-Modelling of Innovation Diffusion
    This paper offers a first order differential equation model for innovation diffusion, solves it, and offers qualitative analysis as well as approaches to estimating parameters with some data on...

    Keywords: Bass modelinnovation diffusionLogistic modeldynamic model

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    2009-Chellaboina-EtAl-Modeling And Analysis-Mass Action Kinetics
    Mass-action kinetics are used in chemistry and chemical engineering to describe the dynamics of systems of reactions, that is, reaction networks. These models are a special form of compartmental...

    Keywords: dynamical systemschemical reactionreaction networkmass action

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    2006-Michelle_LeMasurier-Nonstandard Topics for Student Presentations in Differential Equations
    An interesting and effective way to showcase the wide variety of fields to which differential equations can be applied is to have students give short oral presentations on a specific application.

    Keywords: Presentationstudent presentation

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    2001-Cheng-Teaching mathematical modelling in Singapore schools
    The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibility of introducing the teaching of mathematical modelling to the secondary school curriculum in Singapore.

    Keywords: teachinglogisticsecondary school mathematicsBarnacle GeeseSingapore

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    1999-Meade-Struthers-Differential Equations in the New Millennium-The Parachute Problem
    The parachute problem will be used to illustrate several essential features of the improved courses. In particular, it will be seen that the traditional version of the parachute problem is not very...

    Keywords: resistancefree fallparachutejumpskydiving

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    2015-H_Sayama-Intro to Modeling and Analysis of Complex Systems
    Introduces students to mathematical/computational modeling and analysis developed in the emerging interdisciplinary field of Complex Systems Science.

    Keywords: textbooktext

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    1972-Suresh_Sethi-Optimal Control of the Vidale-Wolfe Advertising Model
    This paper considers an optimal-control problem for the dynamics of the Vidale-Wolfe advertising model, the optimal control being the rate of advertising expenditure to achieve a terminal market...

    Keywords: Optimal Control Theoryadvertisingsales

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    2018-Robert_Phair-Differential_equation_methods_for_simulation_of_GFP_kinetics_in_non–steady_state_experiments
    Here, we derive new tracer kinetic analytical methods for non–steady state biological systems by constructing mechanistic nonlinear differential equation models of the underlying cell biological...

    Keywords: protein quality controlkineticsCellssteady statechemical kineticsfluouresencephotoactivationinytracellular

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    2011-Richard_Fitzpatrick-Newtonian_Dynamics
    This 300 page text is packed with motivational physics. Indeed, Professor Fitzpatrick brings us to the origins of why differential equations are the dominant tools of mathematics in the study of...

    Keywords: modelingtextbookphysicsbifurcation

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    An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling in Biological Systems Using NetLogo: Workshop Manual
    An introduction to the basics of agent based models, stepping through the creation of a model of bacterial population growth in NetLogo. Aimed at undergrad and graduate students with little-to-no...
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    3-043-BallisticModeling-SpongeDart-ModelingScenario
    The goal of this project is for students to develop, analyze, and compare three different models for the flight of a sponge dart moving under the influences of gravity and air resistance.

    Keywords: projectile motionair resistanceballisticsdimensional analysisNewtonian mechanicssponge dartNerf gunNerf dartBuckingham's Theorem

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    1-096-OP-AMP-Differentiator-ModelingScenario
    The output waveform (function) of a operational amplifier type of differentiator circuit is determined analytically from the first order governing ordinary differential equation and compared with...

    Keywords: simulationMeasurementfeedbackMultisimcircuitvoltageoperational amplifiervalidationSPICE

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    4-065-GasInjection-ModelingScenario
    Students use programs (or create their own code) based on exponential box-scheme approximations for solving systems of nonlinear differential equations that contain small parameters for the highest...

    Keywords: Prandtl-Blasius equationsboundary layergas injectionesponential box schemeuniform convergenceFORTRAN

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    3-069-HeatInBar-ModelingScenario
    The temperature distribution along a uniform slender bar due to conduction and convection is investigated through experimental, analytical, and numerical approaches.

    Keywords: heat transferexperimentconductionconvectionboundary conditionsfinite volume method

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    3-070-FallingInWater-ModelingScenario
    We model a small canister with ballast to keep it vertical as it falls through water in a graduated cylinder filled with water. We suggest several models in terms of resistance due to the media and...

    Keywords: datawaterresistancefallingbuoyancymass

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    NEON Data in the Classroom: Quantifying Spatial Patterns
    Students build on fundamental concepts of spatial patterns and combine this knowledge with the open-data from the National Ecological Observatory Network to quantify spatial autocorrelation and...

    Keywords: RR Markdownlandscape ecologygroup-neon2018spatial statisticsfractalsrasters

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    Natural history collections data and Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE)
    Presentation made by Elizabeth Ellwood et al. as part of the "Bringing Research Data to the Ecology Classroom: Opportunities, Barriers, and Next Steps” Session at the Ecological Society of...

    Keywords: Ecological Society of America

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