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EdCenter Projects


 

Faculty Fellows

 

Undergraduate Computational Science Olympics (CSO) Competition

 

Sociology Workbench

Assessment and Analysis

 

Internet2 (High Performance Network) for SDSU

 

Presentations to SDSU, the CSU and EOT-PACI

 

National EOT-PACI partnerships for education

 

Information on the Internet

 

Distance Education

 

Computational Science in Secondary Schools


Faculty Fellows

  • Learn about our most successful program to foster the use of NPACI computational resources in undergraduate education. To see examples of accomplishments by this program, you can go directly to the Faculty Fellows page.

SDSC (San Diego SuperComputer) Student Intern Poster Presentation Summer 2000.

  • Interns "Show Their Stuff" at Poster Session
    Students displayed summer research projects at August 24 event, a new article in NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure) and SDSC OnLine magazine.
  • EdCenter on Computational Science and Engineering was proud to participate in NPACI (National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure) and SDSC (San Diego SuperComputer) Student Intern Poster Presentation. Please read more about this event in article we reprinted from NPACI & SDSC Online Magazine (text by Nicole Batchelor, SDSC student intern; photographs by Jeff Sale and Zarko Petrovic).

Undergraduate Computational Science Olympics (CSO) Competition

Sociology Workbench (SWB)

  • The SWB is a collection of on-line resources for sociologists and social scientists.
  • The SWB is described in Sept. 15, 1999, NPACI Online article.
  • The core of SWB is a set of on-line analysis tools which you can use to examine several built-in datasets, as well as your own survey data. In essence, it is a free on-line statistical package implementing a unique data analysis methodology.

Assessment and Analysis

An excellent resource for background on Assessment is the NSF Document User Friendly Guide for Project Evaluation: Science, Mathematics, Engineering and Technology Education.
www.ehr.nsf.gov/EHR/RED/EVAL/handbook/handbook.htm

Partnership with NISE ILT:
September 1999 marks the beginning of collaboration between the EC/CSE and the National Institute for Science Education NISE. Jean-Pierre Bayard, CSU Sacramento is an NPACI Fellow with year and attended the EC/CSE CSU Faculty Workshop in June 1999 at SDSU and SDSC.

Focus on the College Level One program CL1
This includes the collection of Collaborative Learning Teaching Stories. An interesting selection is the Engineering story.
Focus on the Field-tested Learning Assessment Guide FLAG
It was featured in March 15th issue of Scoult Report for Science and Engineering.
Useful resource for survey instruments to establish learning outcomes of our students. Note, these sample surveys could be the basis for gathering data for SWB.
Flashlight Program from the TLT Group of the AAHE
The American Association for Higher Education (AAHE) sponsors several activities and Steve Ehrlmann is with the Flashlight Program and with the NISE/ILT group now.
TechEd99
Workshop on Improving Undergraduate Education in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences through the use of Technology.
ILT description by Jean-Pierre R. Bayard [best viewed with IE4 or above]
At the web address above is the presentation that many of the ILT Fellows will use when we go on interview visits. The content comes from our poster, notes, and several other sources.
Jean-Pierre R. Bayard, Ph.D.; Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering; California State University, Sacramento; 6000 J Street, Sacramento, CA95819-6019; Email: bayardj@csus.edu; Phone: Voice (916)278-5847 Fax: (916)278-5949; WWW: http://gaia.ecs.csus.edu/~bayardj/index.html

1998/99 Evaluation by NISE/LEAD researchers:

Dr. Julie Foertsch and Dr. Baine Alexander performed and extensive evaluation of the EC/CSE through phone interviews, faculty email-surveys, face-to-face interviews with members of the EC/CSE and SDSU faculty, administration and other stake-holders. This year-long collaboration had several useful outcomes, please examine for an off-SDSU campus viewpoint:
1998/99 Formative Evaluation of the EC/CSE by J.Foertsch and B. Alexander, LEAD/NISE, U.Wisconsin (copy on SDSU Web)
Fall 1998 Survey of SDSU Faculty's Current IT Needs and Practices conducted by email through the support of SDSU Deans of the Colleges of Arts & Letters, Sciences, and Engineering.Note: these are the college with faculty participating in the EC/CSE Faculty Fellows program.
Sample course evaluation questions for courses using HPC technology, courtesy of the LEAD Center, U. Wisconsin-Madison
Sample survey of SDSU Facuty's Current Information Technology Needs and Practices, courtesy of the LEAD Center, U. Wisconsin-Madison, prepared Fall 1999

 

Internet2

  • February 2000, we begin a collaboration with Prof. Allison Rosett's ET 644 Advanced Instructional Design course to develop a module on What Does Internet2 Mean for Faculty which they completed May 2000. [Stewart's starting point for Debbie LaTorre and Alicia Holder was Internet2 Meaning for Faculty]
  • In July 1997, SDSU joined with other CSU campuses to apply for vBNS access from NSF (vBNS = very-high-speed Backbone Network System) for SDSU. A Summary of recent activities is available.
  • As promised by the CSU Chancellor Office Network Engineers, the SDSU connection to the Abilene Network from the Internet2 Universities. Based on the Internet2 Fall Meeting in Seattle, Abilene High-speed Network update Oct 99

Presentations to SDSU, the CSU and the National Education, Outreach and Training collaboration

  • The Ed Center considers the opportunity to present the goals, background, resources, plans, projects and current accomplishments as the first step in forming a collaboration with faculty. We keep a history of these so that you can see our progress.

National EOT-PACI workshops

  • Workshops were held at the NPACI All Hands, San Diego, January 1999
  • Stewart participated in the NEOT Meeting, July 1998, O'Hare Airport
  • Ilya Zaslavsky participated in the National EOT Meeting (Feb. 20-21, 1998, Chicago, IL)
  • Kris Stewart has participated in the National EOT workshop in Madison WI, Sept. 11-13 1997 (NISE/LEAD thanks Greg Moses)

Information on the Internet

Distance Education

Computational Science in Secondary Schools

 

  • Ed Grid, Moving K-12 Teachers into 21st Century Science with 21st Century Technology: Building the Educational Grid for Pre-Service Training, Lisa Bievenue PI, EOT-PACI/NCSA
  • SC2000
  • STEP Home Page
  • The Secondary Education in Computational Sciences, SPECS, has joined the NPACI partnership to develop curriculum materials iintended to expose high school students to computational science.
 
 

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