Led by Dr. Sachiko Tosa's Wright State Teaching Innovations award sponsored by the Provost's Office, the Physics Department hosted two distinguished guests during the Fall Semester:
- Dr. Eric Mazur from Harvard University visited Wright State on November 30 for a very eventful and busy day. He met with the Boonshoft School of Medicine in the early morning, gave a Physics Seminar "Femtosecond laser-assisted microstructuring of silicon for novel detector, sensing, and display technologies" (PDF) in the late morning, led discussions related to teaching innovations at lunch, and gave an interactive workshop on "Memorization or Understanding: Are We Teaching the Right Thing?" in the afternoon.
- Dr. Ken Heller from the University of Minnesota visited Wright State on December 7 for a second very eventful and busy day. In the morning, he led a "Workshop on Coopertive Group Problem Solving Pedagogy" (PDF) attended by faculty from aournd Wright State, at lunch we met with undergradatue and gradaute students, and during the afternoon he gave a public colloquim on "Building Sustainable Educational Change - A Systems Approach" (PDF) .
Attachments:
| Attachment | Size |
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 Mazur-Laser-Talk.pdf | 52.17 KB |
| Heller_Workshop_Dec7.pdf | 308.69 KB |
| Heller_Colloquium_Dec7.pdf | 154.75 KB |
