Graphs of sine and cosine (Kate Poirier)
Estimating the height of a building (Suman Ganguli)
Borrowing and Saving (Kate Poirier)
Category: Project Ideas
- 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
Masa has mentored many student projects. Several projects involve some kind of math and may provide ideas for math projects (in particular for Opening Gateways Faculty Fellows’ STEM Applications). Masa was generous enough to allow these projects to be posted here.
EESL_SmartCityObservatory_PatriceProsper (1)
Eco Composter Waste To Energy II City Tech (1)
IUSE Poster Presentation_MNreviewed (1)
Professor Johann Thiel is the course coordinator for MAT 2440 and 2540. His repository of projects that instructors can use in their classes is available here.
One of the goals of the STEM Liaison is to identify topics in science, technology, and engineering programs that could be introduced as applications of particular math topics in math courses. Through the Opening Gateways grant, faculty fellows have created STEM applications for MAT 1275 (College Algebra and Trigonometry) and MAT 1375 (Precalculus). Fellows will create STEM applications for MAT 1475 (Calculus I) in Fall 2019 and pilot these in their own classes in Spring 2020.
Here are links to STEM applications created by previous fellows:
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