Overview
This unit furthers students’ understanding of and ability in mathematical modelling of scientific and engineering problems using MATLAB. It is designed to substantiate students’ mathematical knowledge and techniques gained from completing previous units through utilising existing functions and tools in MATLAB to solve general problems in various disciplines. Students will also learn programming in MATLAB to create and test programs for obtaining useful solutions both analytically and numerically to problems with complex conditions. Coursework leads students to approaching posed problems in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and systematic procedure of modelling through integrating mathematical and programing knowledge and techniques learnt.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite: MATH12222 or MATH13218
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2017
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from students evaluation
Emphasise more on actual programming, and less on the theory of the math.
Just briefly review some basic math and then focus more on actual programming
- Use existing functions in MATLAB to solve general problems in various disciplines.
- Apply programming skills in solving complicated problems in the MATLAB environment.
- Utilise existing tools in MATLAB to manipulate and visualize input/output data for supporting interpretation of real applications.
- Formulate and implement procedures of mathematical modelling for real situations where analytical solutions exist.
- Design and realise procedures of numeric modelling to develop useful solutions to complex applications.
- Document the solution to posed problems in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and systematic procedure of modelling.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Communication | ||||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | ||||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | ||||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | ||||||
| 5 - Team Work | ||||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | ||||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | ||||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | ||||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | ||||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | ||||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Practical and Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Practical and Written Assessment - 40% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
Additional Textbook Information
There are no required textbooks
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
y.wang2@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
MATLAB: getting started ;
Basic types and operations in MATLAB;
Built-in functions
Chapter
Part 1.1- 1.4 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Arrays, vectors and matrices and their basic operations
Chapter
Part1.5 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
plotting and visualization;
input/output in MATLAB ;
Chapter
Part1.6 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
M-files and user-defined functions;
Flow controls ;
Chapter
Part 1.7-1.8 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
MATLAB implementations of Lagrange interpolation, Newton interpolation and cubic splines ;
Chapter
Part 2.1-2.2 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
MATLAB implementations of curve fitting ;
Chapter
Part 2.3 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
MATLAB implementations of Euler method, improved Euler method and Runge-Kutta method ;
Chapter
Part 2.4 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Interpolating data using MATLAB built-in functions;
Curve fitting using MATLAB built-in functions;
Solving differential equations using MATLAB built-in functions;
Chapter
Part 2.5 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Project one: Modelling of vibrations of a system with single degree of freedom using MATLAB;
Chapter
Part 3 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Project two: Modelling of RLC circuits using MATLAB;
Chapter
Part 4 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Project three: Modelling of vibrations of a system with multiple degree of freedom using MATLAB;
Chapter
Part 5 in study guide
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Other applications of MATLAB in engineering mathematics
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Practical and Written Assessment
Questions on MATLAB fundamentals covered in Weeks 1-4. Please see the unit website for the questions in this assignment.
Week 5 Friday (11 Aug 2017) 11:00 pm AEST
Week 7 Friday (1 Sept 2017)
Marked assignments are expected to be returned 2 weeks after the submission deadline.
The final mark is out of 30. Questions are from contents covered in Weeks 1-4. Questions are awarded the full marks if they are error-free, partial marks if there are some problems, and no marks if not attempted or contain so many errors as to render the attempt to be without value. To ensure maximum benefit, answers to all questions should be neatly and clearly presented and all appropriate working should be shown.
- Use existing functions in MATLAB to solve general problems in various disciplines.
- Apply programming skills in solving complicated problems in the MATLAB environment.
- Utilise existing tools in MATLAB to manipulate and visualize input/output data for supporting interpretation of real applications.
- Formulate and implement procedures of mathematical modelling for real situations where analytical solutions exist.
- Design and realise procedures of numeric modelling to develop useful solutions to complex applications.
- Document the solution to posed problems in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and systematic procedure of modelling.
- Problem Solving
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
2 Practical and Written Assessment
Questions on numeric methods using MATLAB covered in Weeks 4-8. Please see the unit website for the questions in this assignment.
Week 9 Friday (15 Sept 2017) 11:00 pm AEST
Week 11 Friday (29 Sept 2017)
Marked assignments are expected to be returned 2 weeks after the submission deadline.
The final mark is out of 30. Questions are from contents covered in Weeks 5-8. Questions are awarded the full marks if they are error-free, partial marks if there are some problems, and no marks if not attempted or contain so many errors as to render the attempt to be without value. To ensure maximum benefit, answers to all questions should be neatly and clearly presented and all appropriate working should be shown.
- Use existing functions in MATLAB to solve general problems in various disciplines.
- Apply programming skills in solving complicated problems in the MATLAB environment.
- Utilise existing tools in MATLAB to manipulate and visualize input/output data for supporting interpretation of real applications.
- Formulate and implement procedures of mathematical modelling for real situations where analytical solutions exist.
- Design and realise procedures of numeric modelling to develop useful solutions to complex applications.
- Document the solution to posed problems in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and systematic procedure of modelling.
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Information Technology Competence
3 Practical and Written Assessment
Assignment 3 is a group project for different disciplines based on lectures and tutorials during weeks 9-12. Each group needs to complete the assigned project using skills and knowledge gained from this unit and other units. Please see the unit website for the questions in this assignment.
Students can take one of three projects according to their specialties. This is a group work (up to 3-4 people in each group) .
Week 12 Friday (6 Oct 2017) 11:00 pm AEST
Exam Week Friday (20 Oct 2017)
The marked projects will be returned to the students after the certification date.
Marks will be allocated on project design, methods chosen and implied, process control, discussions and conclusions.
- Use existing functions in MATLAB to solve general problems in various disciplines.
- Apply programming skills in solving complicated problems in the MATLAB environment.
- Utilise existing tools in MATLAB to manipulate and visualize input/output data for supporting interpretation of real applications.
- Formulate and implement procedures of mathematical modelling for real situations where analytical solutions exist.
- Design and realise procedures of numeric modelling to develop useful solutions to complex applications.
- Document the solution to posed problems in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and systematic procedure of modelling.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Team Work
- Information Technology Competence
- Cross Cultural Competence
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
