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Given by Geoffrey C. Fox at Project Review at NPAC on Jan 18 1999. Foils prepared Jan 17 1999
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This outlines a proposed Physics/Engineering Initiative
To Integrate Information Technology into education curriculum and Outreach
  • Internetics
  • NeatTools
  • TangoInteractive/WebWisdom
  • Physics for 21st. Century
  • Physics and Engineering Applets
  • High Energy Physics Research

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1 Physics and Engineering Education and Outreach with Modern Information Technology Introduction
2 Syracuse Participants
3 Building Blocks of Initiative
4 Schedule
5 Why and What are we Doing?
6 Why/What is Internetics in a Nutshell
7 Synergy of Parallel Computing and The Grid Internetics as Unifying Principle
8 Internetics and Physics I
9 Internetics and Physics II
10 Why use TangoInteractive?
11 Current Activities Leveraged
12 Some Projects in Initiative
13 Useful Links

Outside Index Summary of Material

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Foil 1 Physics and Engineering Education and Outreach with Modern Information Technology Introduction

From Physics and Engineering Educational Initiative Project Review at NPAC -- Jan 18 1999. *
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Review of Syracuse Activities Jan 18 99
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/physedinitjan99
Geoffrey Fox
Syracuse University NPAC
111 College Place Syracuse NY 13244 4100
3154432163
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Foil 2 Syracuse Participants

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NPAC -- a computational science/Internetics research and development organization: Geoffrey Fox (NPAC director, Professor of Physics and Computer Science), Ed Lipson (Universal Access), Marek Podgorny(Education Technology)
Experimental High Energy Physics: Marina Artuso, Tomasz Skwarnicki, Sheldon Stone
Physics -- existing web enhanced courses: Simon Catterall, Ed Lipson, Gianfranco Vidali
College of Engineering and Computer Science - Dept. of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAME) -- existing web enhanced courses: Hiroshi Higuchi, Alan Levy, Jacques Lewalle
Eric Schiff -- Department chair Physics
Ed Bogucz -- Dean of ECS College and also part of MAME
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Foil 3 Building Blocks of Initiative

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1) New Curriculum: Internetics Concept as novel and powerful way of linking Computing to Applications
  • Concept generalizes computational science
  • An Internetics Certificate which we will offer over Internet both in USA and internationally
  • Integration with physics for new degree options
2) Improved curriculum in existing fields as in Physics-NPAC-Engineering-Cornell Collaborative Applets and web-based simulations
3) NeatTools for universal access allowing those with disabilities to be effective teachers and learners
4) TangoInteractive and WebWisdom as web-based distance education technology to allow broad dissemination of curriculum starting locally
5) High Energy Physics experimental group as research link
6) NSF PACI (NCSA,UCSD supercomputer centers) to accelerate national outreach and ensure top quality
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Foil 4 Schedule

From Physics and Engineering Educational Initiative Project Review at NPAC -- Jan 18 1999. *
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9--ɵ.30 Introduction (Fox)
9.30--ᡂ.30 Physics Curriculum Phy 105/106/307(Lipson, Catterall, Vidale)
10.45-ᡃ.30 TangoInteractive/WebWisdom (Podgorny,Fox)
11.30-ᡄ.15 NeatTools and Universal Access(Lipson)
12.15-ɭ.15 Lunch brought in
1.15--ɮ.15 Tour of RICH Detector (Artuso,Skwarnicki,Stone)
2.15--ɮ.40 High Energy Experimental Physics Educational Outreach (Artuso,Skwarnicki,Stone)
2.40--ɯ.20 Engineering Curriculum (Higuchi,Levy,Lewalle)
3.30 Institutional Comments (Bogucz, Schiff)
4.00 Discussion of Possible Proposal and Next Steps
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Foil 5 Why and What are we Doing?

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We are integrating best information technology and leading physics and engineering research into new curriculum with both existing and new educational programs and outreach activities
This will invigorate traditional majors; integrate them into interdisciplinary education and improve broad based science understanding
We need Internetics as key information technology curriculum
We need NeatTools to enable universal access to web-based curriculum
We need TangoInteractive/WebWisdom to broadly disseminate
We need outside collaboration (such as NSF PACI EOT) to ensure integration with national agenda
We need physics and engineering researchers and teachers to design and develop new curriculum materials
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Foil 6 Why/What is Internetics in a Nutshell

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Computational Science is Interdisciplinary field in between Computer Science and "large scale Scientific and Engineering simulation-based" applications
  • Academic fields: Aerospace engineering, physics etc.
Internetics is Interdisciplinary field between CS and Both Simulation and Information-based applications
  • Bioinformatics, Public Communication ...
  • As information applications dominate commercial world, internetics has an information flavor (analysis of physics data is an "information" application; QCD Monte Carlo is a simulation application)
Enrollment in Classic Computational Science at Syracuse has dropped from 50 to 10; enrollment in Internetics has risen from 6 to 100 (95-98)
Current Internetics Curriculum starts with High School Java Academy;undergraduate and graduate programs, through the four course continuing education certificate
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Foil 7 Synergy of Parallel Computing and The Grid Internetics as Unifying Principle

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The two forms of Large Scale Computing Scale Computer for Scale Users in Proportion Power User to number of computers
Parallel Distributed Information Systems Computers Computational Grids
<--------------- Internetics Technologies --------------->
1% market
99% of market driving
student interest and (Java) technologies
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Foil 8 Internetics and Physics I

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Physics is declining in popularity as a major even though
  • Physics research is flourishing
  • Science (and Engineering) are critical to Society (Information technology is built on micro devices and communications infrastructure)
Physics is in many ways a BETTER educational background than computer science to today's major computer science challenge -- designing and building distributed systems
  • We can quite easily train people to program in Java but it is not so easy to design what should be programmed and how it fits together
  • Physics trains students to look at systems from a fundamental point of view and to analyze quantitatively (See Feynman's role in Challenger disaster)
  • All senior people in NPAC have a science or engineering Ph.D.
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Foil 9 Internetics and Physics II

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A combination of Physics and a minor in Internetics is an interesting background for many areas such as:
  • Systems Engineer designing global information systems
  • Experimental physicist designing new data analysis systems
  • K-12 science teacher
More generally will make Physics a more attractive major ...
Further comparing "books" with the Web, we see that the Web offers opportunities for "technical people" as well as those with good "communication skills" (of a traditional kind)
  • Java applets combined with numerical algorithms or physics experimental instrument connected to Web may sometimes be more effective than streams of beautiful English words and nifty drawings
This implies a "Computational Science/Internetics" minor including base information technology and optional elective in "science communication" prepared by physics/engineering
  • At Syracuse, attractive as Newhouse School of Communications gets excellent students
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Foil 10 Why use TangoInteractive?

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New Academic Curriculum suggest the use of distance education as it will allow a few experts to deliver instruction to more students and this
  • addresses shortage of trained faculty
  • cost of developing new curriculum requires many students to amortize cost
Internetics technology such as TangoInteractive and WebWisdom (web-linked multimedia database) enables distance education
Assume future of all education and training is "web-based" and that base Web Technology supports self paced asynchronous learning
  • Database (linked to web) allow management and assessment
  • Synchronous(Interactive) and Project based learning enabled by Web Collaboration systems
Both delivery mechanism and identification of knowledge nuggets (such as Internetics or computational science) that are smaller than a traditional degree suggests different approaches to certification
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Foil 11 Current Activities Leveraged

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Syracuse University naturally funds curriculum development
NSF CISE Directorate: Two MRA(add on to old supercomputer centers) grants (NPAC and Rice University; Cornell, SU Physics/MAME and NPAC)
  • vBNS supplement added to SU MRA
NSF CISE: NCSA PACI funds NPAC for both EOT (Education Outreach and Training) and collaboration technology. Fox leads EOT (NCSA and UCSD) Learning Technologies and NCSA Graduate activities
  • PACI excellent national outreach partners
NSF EHR: CCD Curriculum Development
Darpa and NEC foundation fund NeatTools
Dept of Defence high performance computing modernization program funds NPAC both in information technology (TangoInteractive) and training -- level around $1M per year
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Foil 12 Some Projects in Initiative

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a) Modules for Science for 21st Century where Tango/WebWisdom/NeatTools are fully integrated to support interactive applets,quizzes and glossaries
  • e.g. work done so TangoInteractive delivery and Universal Access is assumed in basic design and implementation
b) Design and implementation of High Energy Physics modules (incl. Linked instruments) which will eventually have property a)
c) Mechanics Based Engineering Courses (Fluid Mechanics, Aircraft and Spacecraft Dynamics, Statics and Dynamics, Mechanics of Materials, Thermodynamics, Vibrations) material with similar properties
d) Design of Internetics minor to be offered for physics and engineering students and physics minor to be offered (with Internetics enablement) to CS students
e) K-12 and Other Outreach using local and national partners
f) Training material to enable other researchers and faculty to produce similar material
g) Workshops describing our and related work
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Foil 13 Useful Links

From Physics and Engineering Educational Initiative Project Review at NPAC -- Jan 18 1999. *
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http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/physedinitjan99/ This Talk
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/physicsfuturemar98 Internetics and Physics
http://www.npac.syr.edu/tango Collaboration System
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/njm/jsuspring98/ Paper on teaching at Jackson State using TangoInteractive
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/houstonwebedoct98/index.html Web based education technology
http://www.npac.syr.edu/users/gcf/internetics Internetics Concept
http://www.webwisdom.org/sept1998/WebWisdomCertDescription.html Internetics Graduate or Continuing Education Certificate
http://suhep.phy.syr.edu/courses/ Phy 105,106, 307
http://www.pulsar.org/ NeatTools and Related Universal Access work
http://www.mame.syr.edu/virstatics/FrameSet1.html Virtual Statics Lab
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