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Undergraduate Student Projects

  • Enhancing SCEC CEO efforts with innovative web technologies: Application to the California Seismic Safety Commission
    Web-based technologies are used to share information from the Southern California Earthquake Center (SCEC) with the California Seismic Safety Commission (CSSC) in an automatic and near real-time manner. The purpose of this project is to automatically extract subsets of data from SCEC databases and integrate this information with other available online databases to provide a quick and efficient summary of data to the CSSC. The near real-time Earthquake List has been developed as a pilot program. The CSSC is primarily interested in larger earthquakes that may potentially damage persons or property. The Earthquake List is a working model tested for magnitudes greater than 3.0 that will be able to provide useful information in the infrequent occurrence of a larger event. View the project results...
  • ECCSE 2002 Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Proposals
    Real-time Interactive Visualization of Remote Environmental Monitoring Systems for Researchers and Educators
    The Santa Margarita Ecological Reserve (SMER) is one of four field stations of the California State University system administered by San Diego State University (SDSU) and dedicated to teaching and research in the field sciences. Research and education efforts at SMER involve collaboration between several groups in high-performance computing and computational science. For more than a year, the High-Performance Wireless Research and Education Network (HPWREN), led by Hans-Werner Braun, has worked closely with SMER technicians to establish high-speed (45 Mbps) wireless communication links to these remote stations. Recently, the Northwest Alliance for Computational Science and Engineering (NACSE), led by NPACI Earth Systems Science Thrust Area Co-Leader Cherri Pancake at Oregon State University, developed a prototype web interface designed to use this high-speed wireless connection at SMER to provide researchers more convenient access to data acquired from remote environmental monitoring systems.

    Password Encryption for the Computational Science Resource Community: Security and privacy are high priorities for NPACI and the ECCSE development team. The CSRC and underlying OCSK does not have password encryption for their member accounts by default, so the ECCSE development team integrated an encryption scheme that keeps member passwords private. Undergraduate student programmer Chip McMakin led this development effort.
  • OpenGL projects: Trajectory Simulation, Magnetic Field, Planets, Terrain(You need glut.dll, glut32.dll libraries if you want to use source code. They were included in the source code zip file.)
    These projects came from the SDSU CS 596 Computer Graphics course taught by Professor Steve Cunningham, CSU Stanislaus, while he was on sabbatical at the San Diego Supercomputer Center for the 1999/2000 academic year. Thank you Steve! Steve's course notes are available online from his web site: Cunningham Computer Graphics (September 2000, 3MB Adobe Acrobat PDF file).

 

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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 Scout 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

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Internet2

  • 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, including Golden Spike announcement of connectivity with Mexico.
  • 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]
  • 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

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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)

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Information on the Internet

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Distance Education

  • Prototype Video Captioning Service Video captioning is becoming an important component of a fully accessible web site serving digital video content for university curriculum. Explore this new exciting tool that allows you to import a digital video and accompanying transcript and output a QuickTime Text Track for subsequent merging with the digital video.
  • Ilya Zaslavsky, GIS staff scientist with the Ed. Center, taught two courses at Western Michigan University (Geography Department) from the Ed. Center facilities at SDSU. See distance learning links for more information.

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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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