2014 PDP Teams

PDP 2014

Total Impact:

2014-1

Deriving uncertainties from random sampling, and designing investigations   

2014-2

Team Lead: Mike Lum, University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
Disciplinary area: Optics
Teaching venue: TEXOCOP Summer Program, University of Houston College of Optometry, Houston ISEE Chapter
Sponsor: ISEE (NSF/EHR)

2014-3

Identifying temperatures from spectral features, and identifying assumptions in models         

Team Lead: Jesse Lord, University of Colorado, Boulder
Disciplinary area: Astronomy, Solar physics 
Teaching venue: PREP for LASP REU, Boulder ISEE Chapter
Sponsor: AWI (NSF & AFOSR)

2014-4

Deriving uncertainties on measurements, and analyzing data via graphing   

2014-5

Fourier Transforms, and visualizing data in multiple domains

Team Lead: Vicky Scowcroft, Carnegie Observatories, Pasadena
Disciplinary area: Astronomy, Physics
Teaching venue: PREP for Pomona College REU
Sponsor: ISEE (NSF/EHR)

2014-6

Control structures in computer programming, and optimization  

2014-7

Intermittency of renewable energy sources, and optimization

Team Lead: Austin Barnes, Institute for Scientist & Engineer Educators
Disciplinary area: Engineering, Renewable Energy Design
Teaching venue: Akamai Short Course, Akamai-Hawaii Chapter
Sponsor: AWI (NSF/AST & AFOSR), NSF/PIRE, TMT

2014-8

Gaussian errors, and defining requirements   

Team Lead: Anna Boehle, University of California, Los Angeles
Disciplinary area: Astronomy, Physics 
Teaching venue: PREP for Physics and Astronomy REU, UCLA
Sponsor: ISEE (NSF/HER)

2014-9

Genetic mapping, and designing experiments 

2014-10

Energy conservation and transfer, and optimization        

2014-11

Imaging with lenses, and defining requirements    

Team Lead: Quinn Konopacky, Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto
Disciplinary area: Astronomy, Optics
Teaching venue: Instrumentation Summer School, Dunlap Institute

Sponsor: Dunlap Institute, University of Toronto

2014-12

Catalysis, and constructing explanations based on evidence 

Team Lead: Chris Bernt, University of California, Santa Barbara
Disciplinary area: Chemistry 
Teaching venue: SST, Santa Barbara CSEP ISEE Chapter 

Teaching Summary: Robert Lewis's Lesson Summary

Sponsor: ISEE (NSF/EHR), CSEP/UCSB

2014-13

Non-covalent interactions and drug design, and constructing explanations   

Team Lead: Rafael Palomino, University of California, Santa Cruz
Disciplinary area: Chemistry 
Teaching venue: Chemistry WEST, UCSC
Sponsor: ISEE (UCSC)

2014-14

Wave interference and diffraction, and designing investigations     

2014-15

Feedback in the carbon cycle, and developing conceptual models         

Team Lead: Danica Roth, University of California, Santa Cruz
Disciplinary area:  Earth Science
Teaching venue: Earth WEST, UCSC
Sponsor: ISEE (UCSC)

2014-16

Efficiency and energy design specifications, and justifying design choices

Team Lead: Emma Storm, University of California, Santa Cruz
Disciplinary area: Renewable Engergy
Teaching venue: Renewable Energy WEST, UCSC
Sponsor: NSF/PIRE, ISEE

2014-17

Energy conservation and transformation, and formulating testable hypotheses

Team Lead: Devin Silvia, Michigan State University
Disciplinary area: Physics
Teaching venue: LBC Physics Lab, Michigan State
Sponsor: NSF/AST

2014-18

Lens optics and pinhole optics, and applying models   

2014-19

Geometric image formation, and representing observations mathematically

Team Lead: Geoff Matthews, University of Hawai‘i, Manoa
Disciplinary area: Astronomy
Teacing venue: UH Manoa Astronomy Lab Course 110L, Akamai-Hawaii Chapter  
Sponsor: AWI (NSF/AST & AFOSR)