{{ finalsecantlogo-sm.jpg|}}\\ ====== 2008 SECANT Workshop Agenda ====== ==== Purdue University, October 30-31, 2008 ==== === Thursday, October 30 === == 8:30 – 9:00 BREAKFAST == == 9:00 – 9:45 Welcome and Introductions == * Welcome by Susanne Hambrusch, {{SECANT.seh.Intro.pdf|[slides]}} * Participants Introduction == 9:45 – 10:30 SECANT a year later == Susanne Hambrusch, Chris Hoffmann, Mark Haugan, Tim Korb, {{SECANT.1YearLater.pdf|[slides]}} == 10:30 – 11:00 BREAK == == 11:00 – 12:00 Life Sciences Community Building Panel == Raj Acharya (Penn State, chair), Tony Hazbun (Purdue, Pharmacy) {{Secant_hazbun.pdf|[slides]}}, Daisuke Kihara (Purdue, Biology&CS), Haixu Tang (IU, Informatics) {{HaixuTang.pdf|[slides]}}, Peter Waddell (Purdue, Biology) == 12:00 – 1:15 Lunch == == 1:15 – 2:30 Physics and Astronomy Community Building Panel == Bruce Sherwood (NC State, chair), Mark Haugan (Purdue), Rubin Landau (Oregon State) {{LandauPanel30.pdf|[slides]}}, Dan Stinebring (Oberlin), Robert Swendsen (CMU) == 2:30 – 3:30 Related Projects in the CS community == * Deepak Kumar (Bryn Mawr College), Learning Computing With Robots {{SECANT-DK.pdf|[slides]}} * Tom Cortina (CMU), Teaching Key Principles of Computer Science Without Programming {{cortina-revised.pdf|[slides]}} == 3:30 – 4:00 BREAK == == 4:00 – 5:00 CPATH Institutional Transformation Project == *Valerie Barr (Union College), Campus Wide Computation Initiative - A New Model for Computing Education {{UnionCPATH.pdf.pdf|[slides]}} *Lenny Pitt (UIUC), iCUBED: Informatics and Computation throughout Undergraduate Baccalaureate Education {{pitt-secant-iCUBED.Overview.Oct2008.pdf|[slides]}} == 6:30 DINNER (Jane’s) == 524 N. 4th St., Lafayette, IN === Friday, October 31 === == 8:30 – 9:00 BREAKFAST == == 9:00 – 10:20 Birds-of-a-Feather Session == *Ruth Chabay (NC State), A study on reading and writing VPython programs to model physical systems {{SECANT2008_chabay.pdf|[slides]}} *Rubin Landau (Oregon State), BS Degree Program in Computational Physics and its Materials {{Landau_cpug31.pdf|[slides]}} *Jim Early (SUNY Oswego), Creating Educational Materials for Fellow Students with Similar Learning Styles {{Early_08.pdf|[slides]}} *Mark Urban-Lurain (Michigan State), CPATH CB: Computing and Undergraduate Engineering: A Collaborative Process to Align Computing Education with Engineering Workforce Needs {{MSU.pdf|[slides]}} == 10:20 – 10:45 BREAK == == 10:45 – 11:45 The Next Generation of Scientists in the Workforce == *David Spellmeyer (CTO & CIO, Nodality), Computational Thinking as a Competitive Advantage in Industry *Tom McMail (External Research, Microsoft) {{McMailScientistsTomorrow.pdf|[slides]}} == 11:45 – 12:00 Recap and summary == == 12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH == == == == == == == Location: LWSN 3102AB unless stated otherwise