Chalmers University of Technology Integrates MATLAB Throughout Core Mathematics Curriculum

In the past, students in the early mathematics courses were given relatively simple assignments on concepts taught in lectures. The department’s faculty soon recognized two shortcomings of this approach. First, the problems were not difficult enough to engage the students. Second, they were abstract and not directly relevant to practical engineering or scientific challenges. “Instead of school problems, as I called them, we wanted to present students with real problems, to help them understand and apply what they learned,” says Gustafsson. “Many industries in Sweden need people who understand mathematical modeling, and we wanted to prepare our students to meet that demand.”

该部门还想为学生提供Chalmers和哥德堡大学，方便地访问他们需要在跨学科课程中完成任务和项目所需的工具。

整个核心和上级课程的数学科学系综合MATLAB，以及两所大学都获得了校园范围的许可证，使学生能够访问任何一个校园内的MATLAB。

教师为化学和生物工程计划中的学生提供了第一和第二年的课程，以及建筑和技术计划的学生。

化学和生物工程学生从MATLAB介绍开始，包括内置功能和策划。然后，他们学习Matlab中的基本编程结构，并完成了他们编程康威的生命游戏的作业。在第一个课程中的最后两个作业探索了二分，线性化和牛顿的方法。

第二个课程涵盖了中国的应用als and ordinary differential equations in MATLAB. The students use MATLAB to model reaction kinetics and the oxidation of NO to NO₂。

In the third and fourth courses, students solve linear systems of differential equations. Students write their own solvers before using the built-in MATLAB solvers. Using MATLAB, students reproduce a plot from a chemistry textbook showing the probability of finding the electron in a certain area around a hydrogen atom.

First-year students in architecture and technology programs also start with an introduction to MATLAB, covering integrals, differential equations, and numeric computation. With MATLAB, they complete assignments using calculus in one variable and multivariate calculus.

学生在形状，颜色和建筑工具课程探索建筑与工程中使用的几何形状。在线性代数的后续课程中，学生完成了一个最终项目，他们使用Matlab在大英博物馆的庭院上模拟玻璃屋顶。

Students at all levels—including graduates—continue to use MATLAB throughout their studies for course assignments, individual and team projects, and student engineering competitions.