Month: October 2012

Physics Fulbright Scholar Sanjeev Gupta

The Department of Physics welcomes Sanjeev Gupta, a Fulbright scholar, who came to Tech Oct. 22. Gupta was awarded his PhD in physics from Bhavnagar University, India, in 2010, and spent time as a postdoctoral researcher at the Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy. His time at Michigan Tech will be spent primarily with Professor Ravi Pandey’s research group.

Gupta will help design advanced materials that can be future building blocks for solar cells, batteries, and photonic and optoelectronic devices.

From Tech Today.

Physics Team GreenedIt! Chosen for Clean Energy Challenge

Michigan Clean Energy Venture ChallengeTwo teams from Michigan Tech have been chosen to join in the Michigan Clean Energy Venture Challenge. One of the teams is GreenedIt!, a web-based application for energy auditing.

GreenedIt! team members are physics students Travis Beaulieu, an undergraduate, and graduate student Abhilash Kantamneni. The team traveled to East Lansing for their initial training this past weekend.

“The training we received through the challenge was incredibly useful,” said Beaulieu. “The whole point was to try and get young entrepreneurs into the mindset of finding a customer need and forming the idea around the customer’s feedback. Thankfully this training worked for our team, and we had a complete pivot during the weekend.”

Read more at Tech Today, by Dennis Walikainen.

Physics Instructors and Blended Learning

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) will hold a Lunch and Learn, “A Blended Learning Buffet,” from noon to 1 p.m., Thursday, Oct. 25. The location will be provided after registration.

Among the discussion facilitators will be:

Will Cantrell and Claudio Mazzoleni (both of Physics)–Just in Time Teaching
Mike Meyer (CTL/Physics)–Discussion Boards

Read more at Tech Today.

A Blended Learning Buffet

Short introductory videos are posted here, including Discussion Boards by Mike Meyer, Just In Time Teaching by Will Cantrell and Claudio Mazzoleni, and Computerized Testing Center by Joel Neves (Visual and Performing Arts) and Mike Meyer.

View more at the CTL public course page.

Designing Courses in Canvas

Learn more about blended learning at the CTL Blended Learning Showcase.

Aurora in GL IT Report and Science Daily

APOD AuroraProfessor Robert Nemiroff’s explanation of the science behind the aurora borealis was the lead story in Wednesday’s Great Lakes IT Report and was featured on Science Daily and Phys.Org.

The image credit can be found in the Astronomy Picture of the Day for October 5, 2012.

The Science Behind those Eye-Popping Northern Lights

Read more at Michigan Tech News, by Marcia Goodrich.

The Filler Effect: The Influence of Filler Content and Surface Area on Cementitious Reaction Rates

Physics Colloquium
Michigan Technological University
Thursday, October 4, 2012
4:00 pm
Room 139 Fisher Hall
The Filler Effect: The Influence of Filler Content
and Surface Area on Cementitious Reaction Rates
Gaurav Sant
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of California, Los Angeles, California

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