FYEE 2025 Workshop - Module 1 - Bungee Experiment

This folder contains Live Scripts and supporting documentation to gently introduce students to MATLAB through activity centric pedagogy.

Welcome to Module 1

This module consists of five lectures which are best to do in the recommended sequence as the goal is to gently introduce students to MATLAB, Excel, and linear mathematical modeling.

1.Lecture 1: Engage in the Activity (Live Script: Module1_2_BungeeExperiment.mlx

2.Lecture 2: Plotting Data – by Hand (PowerPoint slides for guidance)

3.Lecture 3: Plotting Data – Excel (PowerPoint slides for guidance)

4.Lecture 4: Plotting Data – MATLAB (Live Script: Module1_3_BungeeExperiment_MATLAB.mlx

5.Lecture 5: LLSFT (Two Parts: PowerPoint for Excel guidance; Live Script: Module1_4_LLSFT_MATLAB.mlx)

1) Bungee Experiment - where students do a practical experiment (original activity developed at Indiana University, Bloomington and funded in part by the National Science Foundation and Indiana University 1995) to take independent measurements. The measurements are then processed and fitted via Excel and MATLAB, with the aim to understand Linear Least Squares Fitting (LLSFT). It is comprised of 4 MATLAB Live Scripts with accompanying PowerPoint lectures:

• Module1-1-ENGG010Introduction.mlx - This live script details how students associate to the campus wide license through the portal, access MATLAB Online and set up MATLAB Drive folders for their course content.
• Module1-2-BungeeExperiment.mlx - The instructions and pre-lab discussion for the hand-ons activity to help an action figure safely jump from a predetermined height with the help of elastic bands (original activity developed at Indiana University, Bloomington and funded in part by the National Science Foundation and Indiana University 1995).
• Module1-3-BungeeExperiment-MATLAB.mlx - The bungee experiment instructions in an interactive live scripts, where students can put their answers and measurements directly into the live script introducing tables, plotting and curve fitting in live script sections.
• Module1-4-LLSFT-MATLAB.mlx - Explanation of the mathematics behind LLSFT, and with activities to calculate the slope, intercept and correlation coefficient for the team and class data.

Suggested homework for this module includes the following trainings from the Self-Paced Online Courses: MATLAB Onramp + Curve Fitting Onramp + Statistics Onramp + Common Data Analysis Techniques.