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SUMMARY OF FUNDED PROJECTS
COURSE MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT
Shared Teaching Collections in Plant Paleontology UCB and UCSB. UCB and UCSB faculty have developed
a coordinated intercampus program that enables the two campuses to create a joint teaching collection in plant
paleontology. Faculty collaborate to inventory and augment existing paleobotanical teaching collections and prepare
or modify teaching materials to reflect the augmented collections. With the addition of new specimens to the joint
teaching collections, faculty have developed laboratory manuals for students and graduate student instructors in
two versions to accommodate UCB's semester schedule and UCSB's quarter schedule. IAPIF award for 1994-95 and 1997-98:
$5,075.
Lead faculty: Nan Cyrstal Arens, Department of Integrative Biology, UCB
Participating faculty: Bruce H. Tiffney, Department of Geological Sciences, UCSB
Instructional Image Data Bank: UCB, UCI, UCR. Faculty at UCB, UCI, and UCR are working
with art librarians, curators and museum scientists to create a digital image data bank for slides and photographs
of ancient Greek and Roman art, architecture, and archaeology. The image data bank, known as the Library of UC
Images (LUCI) will be used in teaching Roman art and architecture. Moreover, each campus can use the image data
bank for a variety of applications, e.g., instructional tutorials, research, projection in the classroom, or on-line
catalogues. The collection will be archived into a universitywide image data bank. A Web site has been constructed
as an instructional tool to complement this data bank. IAPIF award for 1996-97 and 1997-98: $13,627.
Lead faculty: Steven F. Ostrow, Chair, Department of History of Art, UCR
Participating faculty: Dell Upton, Department of Architecture, UCB
Margaret M. Miles, Department of History of Art, UCI
Visual Resources Staff: Maryly Snow, Department of Architecture, UCB
Maureen Burns, School of Humanities, UCI
Madelyn Millen, Department of History of Art, UCR
Cooperative program in African language instruction: UCB and UCLA. Faculty from UCB
and UCLA are sharing resources for teaching African languages on their respective campuses. UCLA Professor Russell
Schuh has developed computerized instructional material for Hausa and Wolof which he is sharing with UCB Professor
Sam Mchomo. They are creating similar materials for Chichewa, taught at Berkeley. Their goals are to improve and
add to computerized teaching materials and facilitate their dissemination and consolidate information about African
languages. IAPIF award for 1996-97: $2,898.
Lead faculty: Russell Schuh, Department of Linguistics, UCLA
Participating faculty: Sam A. Mchombo, Department of Linguistics, UCB
Development of Teaching Modules for the Instruction of Mass Transfer to Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering:
UCB and UCLA. UCB and UCLA faculty collaborated to develop teaching modules on the application of mass transfer
principles for undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical and aerospace engineering. They created teaching
materials to bring current practices and the latest advances in mass transfer applications into engineering classrooms
in which this topic is relevant but has seldom been taught. IAPIF award for 1994-95: $3,000
Lead faculty: Ralph Greif, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCB
Participating faculty: A.F. Mills, Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and
 Nuclear Engineering,
UCLA
Tools for Anatomy Instruction Using the World Wide Web: UCB, UCD, and UCSF. Faculty
at UCB, UCD, and UCSF have worked together to develop two instructional tools for the World Wide Web. The first
tool are sets of questions and answers related to photographs of anatomical dissections that have been used in
previous anatomy exams at UCD and UCSF. This information enables students to evaluate their level of competency
in anatomical dissections. The second tool involves clinical cases as problem-solving exercises to be imported
into the World Wide Web providing for a friendly graphical user interface and enabling electronic consultation
from any location. The database includes laboratory results, photography, MRI and CAT scans and other radiologic
studies. IAPIF award for 1994-95: $2,900.
Lead faculty: Hugh A. Patterson, Department of Anatomy, UCSF
Participating faculty: Alan B. Steinbach, health and Medical Sciences Department,
UCB
Kent Erickson, Department of Cell Biology and Human Anatomy, UCD
Development of Chemistry Curriculum Modules: UCB and UCSD. This project is part of a
collaboration in chemistry curriculum reform involving faculty at UC, CSU, and CCC. The IAPIF supported UCB and
UCSD faculty in developing curriculum modules for first year chemistry courses. A variety of Internet-based tutorials
and assignments have been created to use airbags and solar energy as real-world models of basic chemical processes.
Strategies are being developed for adapting material between the Internet and stand-alone applications. A database
has been constructed to include images, 3-D models, animation, and videos created by faculty and multimedia staff.
An evaluation will be conducted on the feasibility of using course-specific materials that reside on a variety
of servers located at UC and other institutions. IAPIF award for 1994-95: $14,291.
Lead faculty: Barbara A. Sawrey, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, UCSD
Participating faculty: William C. Trogler, Department of Chemistry, UCSD
Kent R. Wilson, Department of Chemistry, UCSD
Kenneth Sauer, Department of Chemistry, UCB
C. Bradley Moore, Department of Chemistry, UCB
Susan Kegley, Department of Chemistry, UCB
Alex Pines, Department of Chemistry, UCB
Course Materials for Native Speakers of Russian: UCI, UCLA, and UCSD. Faculty at UCI,
UCLA and UCSD collaborated to develop course materials for native speakers of Russian--Russian-Americans and Russian
immigrants--who need work in reading, writing, translation and style. A manual or reader was published for use
in courses at the three campuses. IAPIF award for 1994-95: $3,000.
Lead faculty: Rebecca Wells, Department of Literature/Russian, UCSD
Participating faculty: Victorina Letebvre, Russian Language Program, UCI
Olga Kagan, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, UCLA
Development of Computer-Aided Undergraduate Instruction in Nematology: UCD and UCR. Faculty
at UCD and UCR have integrated and synthesized course materials used in undergraduate general nematology instruction
to create a computer-based multi-media course syllabus and text. The material is available to students on a dedicated
undergraduate nematology teaching server accessible from the Internet and the World Wide Web. The database includes
scanned drawings and photographs, slides transferred to CD ROM, and video clips transferred to CD. IAPIF award
for 1994-95: $5,000
Lead faculty: Edward P. Caswell-Chen, Department of Nematology, UCD
Participating faculty: Becky B. Westerdahl, Department of Nematology, UCD
Edward G. Platzer, Department of Nematology, UCR
Interactive CD ROM--Otolaryngology: UCD and UCI. UCD and UCI faculty contributed text,
photos and video clips for a CD ROM for otolaryngology. This CD ROM material replaces the course syllabus. The
CD ROM is a way of presenting a uniform series of patient case studies to medical school students since students
generally see a limited number of patients and a limited number of diseases. IAPIF award for 1995-96: $5,066.
Lead faculty: Hilary A. Brodie, M.D., Department of Otolaryngology, UCD
Participating faculty: Carol MacArthur, M.D., Department of Otolaryngology, UCI
Developing Teaching Modules on Chemical Vapor Deposition for Mechanical Engineering Courses:
UCB and UCD. This project was a coordinated effort to introduce material on chemical vapor deposition into
mechanical engineering courses at UCB and UCD. New materials have been integrated into existing courses by using
traditional audio-visual techniques, computer assisted instruction, and Internet. Tutorial computer programs were
developed to illustrate the use of a mechanical engineering database and made available for general use. IAPIF
award for 1994-95: $2,000.
Lead faculty: Harry A. Dwyer, Department of Mechanical & Aerodynamics
Engineering,
UCD
Participating faculty: Ralph Greif, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCB
Interactive Instructional Computing in Space Physics: UCLA and UCSD. This project extended
an existing collaborative effort between UCLA and UCSD to develop and incorporate a new module into the interactive
graphical-interface software package used in teaching space physics at both campuses. An instructional software
module was developed to illustrate space physics concepts and how computer simulations work. The resulting software
will be used to teach space physics to science and non-science major students at UCLA and UCSD with plans to extend
the program to UCB. IAPIF award for 1994-95: $3,000.
Lead faculty: Christopher T. Russell, Department of Earth and Space Sciences,
UCLA
Participating faculty: Nojan Omidi, Department of Electrical and Computer
Engineering, UCSD.
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