Meetings/Abstracts

Co-convener AGU (American Geophysical Union) Fall Meeting, 2016 for Education Session:

Teaching Geoscience with MATLAB:

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 Simons, Princeton University

Co-Conveners: Andrew Fischer, University of Tasmania, Risa Madoff, University of North Dakota

Invited Presenters: Henk Keers, University of Bergen, Martin Trauth, University of Potsdam

My Oral presentation abstract: Click to read

Workshop contributor SERC (Science Education Resource Center), Carleton College, Northfield MN

"Teaching Computation in the Science Using MATLAB," Oct. 2016, click to learn more

"Teaching Geoscience with MATLAB," Oct. 2015, click to learn more