- Arney, Guerra, Hughes, Novak, Patterson, Plucker, Wattenberg: From the Earth to the Moon and Mars and Back with Calculus and Physics
- Nasa has its own set of activities for different math classes: Exploring Space Through Math
- Ashwin Satyanarayana’s (Computer Systems Technology) ideas for MAT 1475 applications:
- Backpropagation algorithm for deep learning/machine learning/neural networks
- time complexity of algorithms
- gradient descent
- Masa Nakamura’s (Mechanical Engineering Technology) undergraduate students’ research projects
- Joel Greenstein’s Undergraduate Mathematics and its Application Project modules (if you are interested in a particular module that does not appear on this list, please request a scan/photocopy from Kate):
- Biology
- The digestive process of sheep
- Selection in genetics
- The human cough
- Population growth and the logistic curve
- Chemistry
- Kinetics of single reactant reactions
- Radioactive chains: parents and daughters
- Earth science and oceanography
- Listening to the earth: controlled source seismology
- Economics
- Feldman’s model
- The distribution of resources
- Differentiation, curve sketching, and cost functions
- Engineering
- Ascent descent
- Geography
- Mercator’s world map and the calculus
- Medicine
- Tracer methods in permeability
- Epidemics
- The human cough
- Measuring cardiac output
- Physics
- The human cough
- Ascent descent
- Physiology and psychology
- A strange result in visual perception
- American politics
- The dynamics of political mobilization
- A model of the mobilization process
- Deductive consequences and empirical applications of the model
- Exponential models of legislative turnover
- The dynamics of political mobilization
- Biology
- Johann Thiel’s MAT 2440/2540 (Discrete Structures and Algorithms I & II) project repository
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