“CITRIS Education Plan”

June 11th, 2002

Pat Mantey (Santa Cruz)

Harry Matthews (Davis)

Jeff Wright (Merced)

Paul Wright (Berkeley)

Main Topics for Education Plan

• Merced collaboration based on WISE

• Connections: 4 UC campuses and their units

• Tele-laboratories and smart classrooms• (Mechanical Rapid-Prototyping, MEMS, Microlab,

Robotics in CS and IEOR)

• Masters degrees for professionals

• New graduate courses

UC-MERCED: Schedule

• Timetable – By Fall 2002 offer CS3 (Introduction to Symbolic

Computing for Non Majors) • Basis for novel innovative signature course that will be very

visible at UC Merced • Common freshman year – so has to be CS relevant as well as

(say) Bio-oriented and other disciplines • Research on course to allow maximum appeal• Start testing course with local community colleges

– By 2004 -- Other courses • Juniors will be on campus at that time

WISE: previous & current work

• Mike Clancy, Marcia Linn, Jim Slotta, Nate Titterton, several graduate students…– Innovative combination of School of

Education’s pedagogical research with CS...

• Extend CS3 findings to other CS subjects– Expect Merced faculty (and others) will use in

course design and organization of material

• Establish tools then use in other engineering disciplines and subjects (Chem 1a.)

For immediate delivery to Merced...

• Course components of CS course• Lecture excerpts, Labs, Homework & Exams

• Database that organizes them• Links and dependencies among components

• Rationale for each component

• Critical review facility for sample courses

Ongoing research in Education

• Enhance role of instructor as learning partner

• Curriculum designer for project based CS courses

• Course builder for individual tailoring of material

• Customizer for different aptitudes/levels

• Portal with links to other resources

Other Plans

• Masters degree programs in focus areas– Management of Technology

– High performance Communication Networks

– Wireless Systems

– Embedded Computing

– MEMS

– Internet-based Design, Manufacturing, and Commerce

Related short term experiment

• ME221 (High Tech Product Design and Rapid Manufacturing)

– “Regular” ME graduate class in the 203 TV studio in McLaughlin. Was Webcast to Intel, Sony and NEC in Santa Clara locations (~ 12 off-campus students)

– Designed products; sent files to Berkeley’s CyberCut/CyberBuild system for custom, Internet-based manufacturing...

Remote Students

Final FDM Casing

CyberCut/CyberBuild

Final Mote

MEMS / MUMPS

Casing Samples• Summit • !ntro• Coach’s

companion

• bentoBox

Previous examples of 1) teaching and 2) research at affiliated campuses

• E.g. Professor Mantey at Santa Cruz– 1) Matched pair of classrooms between main

campus and Cupertino -- Supports synchronous delivery of an MS in Network Engineering

– 2) Research on a) computer supported collaborative protocols, b) floor controls, c) smart notes, d) on-line office hours, e) multi-party visualizations…etc...

Education Council

• Education Council: Paul Wright, Marcia Linn, Mike Clancy @ Berkeley, Pat Mantey @ UCSC, Jeff Wright @ UCM, Prof. Matthews @ UCD

• Intra-campus collaboration example: the Educational Technology Committee at Berkeley led by Christina Maslach and Philip Stark.

• Webcasting based on 1995 work by Berkeley Multimedia Research Center (BMRC), being used by Educational Technology Services (ETS) and by Information Systems and Technology (ITS)

Resummarizing the Education Plan

• Merced collaboration • Continuation with Berkeley’s Education group• IT innovation for ABET accreditation• IT service-learning

• Connections with other campuses and units• Tele-laboratories

• (Mechanical Rapid-Prototyping, MEMS, Microlab, Robotics )

• Masters degrees for professionals• New graduate courses