Overview
Applied Computational Modelling will further your understanding of and ability in mathematical modelling of scientific and engineering problems. You will use built-in MATLAB functions to solve general problems in various disciplines. You will also learn to program in MATLAB to obtain solutions to complex problems, through both analytical and numerical approaches. This unit will teach you to approach problems in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and systematic procedure of modelling through integrating mathematical and programming knowledge and techniques. You will also learn how to document problems and findings. Course work leads you to approaching posed problems in a way that demonstrates a clear, logical and systematic procedure of modelling through integrating mathematical and programming 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 - 2019
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 Student evaluation
Examples used are difficult to relate to as they are not about engineering.
Liaise with engineering staff to develop realistic examples in various engineering disciplines.
Feedback from Student evaluation
Some students do not like the final exam.
The final exam is necessary to reduce plagiarism.
- Solve general problems in various disciplines using existing functions in MATLAB
- Program in MATLAB to solve complicated problems
- Manipulate and interpret input/output data utilising existing tools in MATLAB
- Formulate and implement procedures of mathematical modelling for authentic situations where analytical solutions exist
- Design and implement 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 | |||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||||
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| 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 | |||||||||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 20% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Written Assessment - 30% | ||||||||||
| 3 - Examination - 50% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Applied Computational Modelling with MATLAB
1st edition (2018)
Authors: Yucang Wang, William W Guo
Pearson
Melbourne Melbourne , VIC , Australia
ISBN: 9781488624780
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
Copies can be purchased from the CQUni Bookshop here: http://bookshop.cqu.edu.au (search on the Unit code)
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
Chapter 1 Introduction to MATLAB
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 1 in Chapter 1
Module/Topic
Arrays, vectors and matrices and their basic operations
Chapter
Chapter 2 Arrays, vectors and matrices
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 2 in Chapter 2
Module/Topic
plotting and visualization;
input/output in MATLAB ;
Chapter
Chapter 3 Plotting and input/output in MATLAB
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 3 in Chapter 3
Module/Topic
M-files and user-defined functions;
Flow controls ;
Chapter
Chapter 4 M-files, scripts, user-defined functions and flow controls
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 4 in Chapter 4
Module/Topic
MATLAB implementations of linear and quadratic fitting ;
Chapter
Chapter 5 Curve fitting by the least squares method
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 5 in Chapter 5
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
MATLAB implementations of Lagrange interpolation, Newton interpolation and cubic splines ;
Chapter
Chapter 6 Interpolation with MATLAB
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 6 in Chapter 6
Module/Topic
MATLAB implementations of Euler method, improved Euler method and Runge-Kutta method ;
Chapter
Chapter 7 Numerical methods for solving ODEs
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 7 in Chapter 7
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
Chapter 8 Numerical methods using MATLAB built-in functions
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 8 in Chapter 8
Module/Topic
Project one: Modelling of vibrations of a system with single degree of freedom using MATLAB;
Chapter
Chapter 9 Modelling of mechanical vibrations using MATLAB
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 9 in Chapter 9
Written Assessment 1 Due: Week 9 Wednesday (18 Sept 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Project two: Modelling of RLC circuits using MATLAB;
Chapter
Chapter 10 Modelling of RLC electrical circuits using MATLAB
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 10 in Chapter 10
Module/Topic
Project three: Modelling of vibrations of a system with multiple degree of freedom using MATLAB;
Chapter
Chapter 11 MATLAB modelling of mechanical vibrations with multiple degrees of freedom (MDOF)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Do questions in exercise 11 in Chapter 11
Module/Topic
Other applications of MATLAB in engineering mathematics;
Hints for assignment 3;
Reviews for the final exam.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Finish Assignment 3 and prepare for the final exam.
Written Assessment 2 Due: Week 12 Wednesday (9 Oct 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Written Assessment
Questions on MATLAB fundamentals and numeric methods covered in Weeks 1-8. Please see the unit website for the questions in this assignment.
Week 9 Wednesday (18 Sept 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Week 11 Wednesday (2 Oct 2019)
Marked assignments are expected to be returned 2 weeks after the submission deadline.
The final mark is out of 20. Questions are from contents covered in Weeks 1-8. 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.
- Program in MATLAB to solve complicated problems
- Manipulate and interpret input/output data utilising existing tools in MATLAB
- Formulate and implement procedures of mathematical modelling for authentic situations where analytical solutions exist
- Design and implement 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 Written Assessment
Assignment 2 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 4 people in each group) .Each group only needs to submit one copy with names of all members on the cover page.
Week 12 Wednesday (9 Oct 2019) 11:45 pm AEST
Review/Exam Week Wednesday (16 Oct 2019)
Marked assignments are expected to be returned 2 weeks after the submission deadline.
Marks will be allocated based on project design, methods chosen and implied, process control, discussions and conclusions.
No submission method provided.
- Solve general problems in various disciplines using existing functions in MATLAB
- Program in MATLAB to solve complicated problems
- Design and implement 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
- Information Technology Competence
Examination
Calculator - all non-communicable calculators, including scientific, programmable and graphics calculators are authorised
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