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Acknowledgements

Being able to take the notion of spreadsheets in materials science education from a scattered set of class notes to a product that others can use owes much to support from NSF, from faculty who have expressed and interest in using this product, and the involvement of the students and teaching assistants in my courses who provided valuable feedback and a student's perspective. This page acknowledges the support and contributions of these people and organizations.

National Science Foundation - This project was supported by NSF's Course, Curriculum and Laboratory Improvement program (Division of Undergraduate Education) under grant number 0127591.  NSF's support was essential to being able to begin to transform this concept from scattered class notes to a more coherent, refined and distributable product. Their support is very much appreciated.

Teaching Assistants - Several versions of selected spreadsheet exercises were used by the teaching assistants who guide the students in conducting laboratory experiments and analyzing the results. The experiences and feedback offered by these teaching assistants were essential in developing the final versions of the modules and in learning how to implement these modules in courses. Many thanks to Matt Camilleri, Nils Hakansson, Jing Tong, Sarah Hummel, Jeff Nyman and Sandip Kulkarni for their help.

Students - A number of students at U. C. Davis assisted in developing several of the modules, read and worked each of the exercises, and provided valuable feedback that represents the student's point of view.  Many thanks to Aaron Broumas, Nick Degnan, Rita Kirchoffer, and Andrew Nissan for their help.

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Collaborators

A number of instructors have expressed an interest in using, or have already used, one or more of the SAMS modules in their courses. Below is a list of these collaborators and how they have used or plan to use selected modules.

Universities

  1. Joanna Groza, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, CA - used the "Diffusion of Oxygen into Titanium" module in a junior-level kinetics of materials course.
  2. James Shackelford, Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of California, Davis, CA - used selected exercises from the "X-ray Radiography" module in a junior-level structure and characterization of materials course.
  3. Olivia Graeve, University of Nevada, Reno - evaluating several modules, particularly the "Ionic Bonding" module, for possible use in fall 2003 courses.

Community Colleges

  1. Melanie Lutz, Solano Community College, Fairfield, CA - evaluating several modules for possible use in fall 2003 courses.
  2. Wendy Kaufmyn, City College of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA - evaluating the "Ionic Bonding" module for possible use in fall 2003 courses.
  3. Steve Klein, Yuba City Community College, Yuba City, CA - evaluating several modules for possible use in fall 2003 courses.
  4. Andy Ochoa, Los Medanos College, Pittsburg, CA - evaluating the "Ionic Bonding" module for possible use in fall 2003 courses.
  5. Dave Johnson, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA - evaluating the "Ionic Bonding" module for possible use in fall 2003 courses.
  6. Erik Dunmire, Marin Community College, Kentfield, CA, evaluating several modules for possible use in fall 2003 courses.
  7. Richard Chavez, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA, used during a winter 2004 engineering course at Marin Community College.

High Schools

  1. L. Roy Bunnell, Ph.D., Southridge High School, Kennewick, WA
  2. James Hanafee, Ph.D., Foothill High School, Pleasanton, CA
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