Rethinking the Mathematics Curriculum for Engineering and Science Students
Conference Schedule
Lecture Hall 203, Management Building
800 West Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta Georgia
Friday, April 28
Presentations
9:15 to 9:30 Welcome, and opening remarks by
Eric Carlen
9:30 to 10:00 Marc Smith, ME Georgia Tech
10:00 to 10:30 Frank Dellaert, CS, Georgia Tech
10:30 to 11:00 Allen Tannenbaum, ECE Georgia Tech
11:00 to 11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 to 11:45 Irfan Essa, CS, Georgia Tech
11:45 to 12:15 Jarek Rossignac, CS, Georgia Tech
12:15 to 1:30 Lunch
1:30 to 3:00 Joint presentation by Bill Greenberg, John Rossi and Mike Williams of Virginia Tech
3:00 to 3:15 Coffee Break
3:15 to 3:45 Aaron Bobick, CS Georgia Tech
3:45 to 4:15 Jim McClellan, ECE Georgia Tech
Discussion
4:15 to 5:30 Panel Discussion Program: A panel of four participants
from various disciplines will lead a panel discussion on the points
that have been raised by the earlier speakers, and addiitional points
that they would raise from their own persepctive. The hope is to
develop a dialog between mathematicians and engineers, and to make sure
we understand each other's priorities and goals. The discussion
will be open to input from all participants, but to frame the
discussion, we would like to collect from all participants a range of
questons such as:
- What changes, for better or worse, do you see in the mathematical
preparation of students -- both coming in from high school and after
the freshman and sophomore years?
- How has the use of MATLAB in junior and senior level courses
changed the kind of proficencies that you would like to see students
aquire?
- In the ways that mathematics is now being used in upper level
courses, or graduate courses, is it more or less important that the
students uderstand the theoretical underpinning of this mathematics? As
the rote number crunching is turned over to computers, is the ability
to reason mathematically more or less important?
- Which topics in the standard curriculum -- the one we all studied
-- have grown in importance, and which have diminished in importance,
with regard to your specific field?
We solicit additions to this list from all conference participants.
Please email your questions to Eric Carlen for inclusion on the topics
list.
Two of the panel memebers will not be speaking elswhere in the
conference, and so they will make short, 15 minute or so presentations
that will preface the panel discussion. These are Irene Fonseca and
Cassiano de Oliveira.
Panel Members:
Irene Fonseca, Director of Center for Nonlinear Analysis, CMU
Cassiano de Oliveira, Mechanical Engineering (Nuclear Reactor Engineering), Georgia Tech
Harry Dankowicz, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Ruedi Seiler, Mathematics, TU Berlin
6:30 Conference Dinner
Saturday, April 29
10:00 to 10:30 Peter Lesky, Mathematics, University of Stuttgart
10:30 to 11:00 Hayden Griffin, Engineering Education, Virginia Tech
11:00 to 11:30 Harriet Pollatsek, Mathematics, Mount Holyoke College.
11:30 to 12:30 Ruedi Seiler, TU Berlin
12:30 to 2:00 Lunch
2:00 to 2:30 Mark Pinsky, Mathematics, Northwestern
2:30 to 3:00 Harry Dankowicz, Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
3:00 to 3:30 Michael Loss, Mathematics, Ga Tech
3:30 to 4:00 Maria C. Carvalho, Mathematics, Ga Tech and University of Lisbon
4:00 to 4:30 Eric Carlen, Mathematics, Ga Tech
Note: There are no formal coffee breaks on Saturday, but refreshments will be available in pauses between talks.