Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) summer conference last week. He presented a workshop, “Demo Kit in a Box: Mechanics,” gave an invited talk, “Deepening Understanding by Implementing (Simple) Systems Modeling,” contributed a talk, “Adding Arduinos to a traditional Analog Electronics course,” to the “Ardiuno, Teensy, FPGA’s et al.” session and participated in […]
Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the summer meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) July 14–17. He organized and led the Physics and Society topical discussion session, presided over a session on Labs and Activities for Sustainability and a panel on Teaching Controversial Topics. As chair of the Committee on Science Education for the Public he is […]
John Buncher, Physics and Astronomy, attended the “FPGA Exercises in the Advanced Lab” ALPhA immersion July 24-26 at the University of Minnesota. Field Programmable Gate Arrays are flexible microprocessor devices that are ubiquitous in industry. The Advanced Laboratory Physics Association is affiliated with the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) and runs advanced laboratory sessions to help departments update their […]
Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the winter American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) conference in New Orleans earlier this month. He helped organize and run a topical discussion session and two workshops: “Sketch-n-Etch” on creating circuit boards and “Low Cost Instructional Labs.” He is now Chair of the Committee on Science Education for the Public and is helping to […]
Steve Lindaas, Physics and Astronomy, attended the summer AAPT (American Association of Physics Teachers) conference in Philadelphia from July 28 to August 1. He attended a workshop on “Using FPGAs in the Digital Lab” and gave an invited talk “Elementary Electronics: From Simple to Sophisticated Circuits” in the session on Labs at Many Levels. As vice-chair of the Committee on […]