Faculty Fellows - Fall 2002 Presentation

http://www.edcenter.sdsu.edu/faculty-fellows/fall2002/presentations.html

The ECCSE Fall 2002 Faculty Fellows Give Their End-of-Semester Presentations

(l. to r.): Kris Stewart, Bob Pozos, Jeff Kaplan, Jesa Kreiner, Kirsten Barber, Sundaram 'Krish' Krishnamurthy, Rafaela Santa Cruz, Merry Maisel, Mark Gawron

The ECCSE Fall 2002 Faculty Fellows gave their end-of-semester presentations Dec. 18, 2002, at the EdCenter, marking the fifth year of this extremely successful program. Again, the fellows had outstanding progress to report on for their fellowship projects. Each project is a prime example of the ECCSE's mission to foster the use of high-end computing in undergraduate courses. Read more about each project below.

Below is an overview of the ECCSE Fellows Projects in Progress:

(Jean) Mark Gawron
Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages
College of Arts and Letters
mgawron@mail.sdsu.edu

Mark has been collaborating with our lead programmer, Kirsten Barber, to create "VizLing", a java-based tool used by Mark to help students in his LING596 course to understand sentence parsing using Charts.

Explore this tool at http://edcenter2.sdsu.edu/kir/vizLing.html.

You can also view Mark's presentation in PDF or Postscript formats.

Bob Pozos
Department of Biological Sciences
College of Sciences
bpozos@sciences.sdsu.edu

Professor Bob Pozos has been working with the ECCSE staff to use eTeach to deliver streaming video of his lessons to students in his Biology 100 course. Bob has discovered a useful strategy that really gets and holds his students' attention; using fellow classmates in the videos in a mentor/student dialog with Bob.

View Bob's eTeach lessons in progress

Sundaram "Krish" Krishnamurthy
Department of Mechanical Engineering
College of Engineering and Computer Science
California State University, Fullerton
krish@fullerton.edu

Krish has been working closely with Mike Bailey at the San Diego Supercomputer Center to use the LOM facility at SDSC to fabricate real physical models of mechanical prototypes designed by his undergraduate students in his EGME 322 and 422 courses.

On the right is a picture of several models designed by Krish's students and fabricated with the SDSC LOM. These models are in fact actual prototypes to be delivered to local industries with whom Krish and his program are collaborating to provide students with real-world experience, and to provide local industries convenient access to low-cost local resources rather than having to contract overseas.

(You may view Krish's presentation in either html or powerpoint formats)

Randy Yerrick (personal home page) School of Teacher Education College of Education ryerrick@mail.sdsu.edu Randy has been training his pre-service teaching students in using digital video production tools to assist them in overcoming the preconceptions held by middle school students of concepts in science.

In addition to the EdCenter Team and the Fellows themselves, we were honored to have in attendance Professor Jeff Kaplan, Chair of the Department of Linguistics and Oriental Languages, Phil Langlais, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies for the College of Sciences, Rafaela Santa Cruz, Professor in the College of Education's School of Teacher Education, Jesa Kreiner, Professor and Chair of the Engineering Division, Cal State Fullerton, James Frazee, Assistant Director of SDSU's Instructional Technology Services. Cassie Ferguson and Merry Maisel, SDSC External Relations Science Writers, also joined us from the NPACI San Diego Supercomputing Center.

These projects are supported in part by NSF cooperative agreement ACI-9619020 through computing resources provided by the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure at the San Diego Supercomputer Center.

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