Session S17: Issues in Physics Education

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Sponsoring Units: FEd DCOMP
Chair: Karen Cummings, Southern CT State Univ
LACC - 404B


Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:30PM - 2:42PM

S17.00001: What is physics? The perceptions of middle and high school students in El Paso
Eric Hagedorn , Manuela Ortiz

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:42PM - 2:54PM

S17.00002: Girls, Cars, and Science
Beth Parks

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
2:54PM - 3:06PM

S17.00003: Internships in Public Science Education program: a model for informal science education
Greta Zenner , Olivia Castellini , Arthur Ellis , Wendy Crone

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
3:06PM - 3:18PM

S17.00004: The LEAPS GK-12 Program
Elisabeth Gwinn , Fiona Goodchild , Wendy Ibsen , Marilyn Garza

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
3:18PM - 3:30PM

S17.00005: Graduate Physics Education – Adding Industrial Culture and Methods to a Traditional Graduate Physics Department
Ken Vickers , Greg Salamo , Ron Foster , Ronna Turner

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
3:30PM - 3:42PM

S17.00006: What Computational Approaches Should be Taught for Physics?
Rubin Landau

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
3:42PM - 3:54PM

S17.00007: Classroom Physics Applications Using The Open Source Physics (OSP) Library
Javier Hasbun

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
3:54PM - 4:06PM

S17.00008: MIT’s 3.091 and NSDL Materials Digital Library: Investigating the Role of Digital Libraries in Freshmen Introductory Science Courses with No Lab Component
Donald Sadoway , Laura Bartolo

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
4:06PM - 4:18PM

S17.00009: Uncertainty Calculations in the First Introductory Physics Laboratory
Shafiqur Rahman

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
4:18PM - 4:30PM

S17.00010: Interdisciplinary Materials Science at a Small Liberal Arts College: Integration of Curriculum and Research
Sasha Dukan , Scott Sibley

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
4:30PM - 4:42PM

S17.00011: Undergraduate Instruction in Nanoscience: Visualizing Quantum Confinement and Resonance Effects in 2DEG Nanostructures
Ronald Cosby , Arkady Satanin , Yong Joe

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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
4:42PM - 4:54PM

S17.00012: Classical analogy of Fano interference
Arkady Satanin , Yong Joe

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S17.00013: Nanotechnology, Society, and Freshman, Oh My!
Charles Tahan , Wendy Crone , Karin Ellison , Ricky Leung , Clark Miller , Greta Zenner

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