“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