Principal Investigator: Changhyun Kwon, University at Buffalo The growing network-based concepts in many disciplines and the difficulties for both instructors and students in transferring the notions of networks necessitate an interactive and easy-to-access platform for efficient communication. Motivated by this need, this project will use the most recent web technologies to improve educational effectiveness in teaching both scientific concepts and computational methods in a connected world. The project aims to develop an interactive web-application that will be readily sharable with all SUNY instructors teaching network related materials. The proposed web-application will interactively respond to needs of instructors and students, and help teaching and learning difficult notions, often written in complicated mathematical notations, with visualized information. Three SUNY instructors including the PI will test the web-application in real courses. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Ann Bisantz, Professor and Chair, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University at Buffalo Joan Lucas, Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, SUNY College at Brockport June Dong, Professor, Department of Marketing & Management, SUNY Oswego Julia Colyar, Adjunct Instructor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy, University at Buffalo Graduate School of Education Reports and Resources: Project website Web app tutorial document Project outcomes report Mid-project report Creative Commons License:

Awarded Grant: $15,000 Principal Investigator: Mark A. Bremer, SUNYIT Sustainable energy, such as wind and solar, can contribute significantly to meet the energy demand of New York State. Implementing sustainable energy will require the development of technology as well as public understanding and acceptance of sustainable systems. Therefore, integration of sustainability education into SUNY programs as well as providing opportunities for K-12 students to see and interact with sustainable energy is crucial. The innovation of this project emphasizes the integration of a recently developed IITGrant virtual technical tool with real system learning tools including a portable, reusable solar/wind power plant to address sustainability issues. The objectives of this project are to create an integrated combination of sustainability related virtual – real activities/exercises that would be appropriate to 1) support undergraduate sustainability and alternative energy related courses, 2) support SUNYIT K-12 outreach programs both on and off campus, and 3) address teaching high risk young people. Co-PI’s and Key Partners: Philip Hofmeyer, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Renewable Energy Training Center, Morrisville State College Ibrahim Yucel, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Information Sciences and Technology , SUNYIT Christopher Urban, Lecturer, Computer Science, Computer Information Systems (CIS) Technology, SUNYIT Kenneth T Waight III, Ph.D., Senior Scientist/ Director of Atmospheric Modeling, MESO Inc. Xinchao Wei, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Civil/Environmental Engineering, SUNYIT Glenn E. Van Knowe, Ph.D., Adjunct Lecturer, Electrical Engineering Technology, SUNYIT Robert Keesee, Ph.D., Associate Professor Atmospheric Chemistry, University at Albany Brian Hong-An Tang, Ph.D., Assistant Professor Atmospheric Science, University at Albany Elizabeth Rossi, K-12 Outreach Director, SUNYIT Suzanne Tulino, Director, Taberg Residential Center for Girls, New York State Office of Children and Family Services (OCFS) Reports and Resources: Final report Project website with links to virtual exercises, minutes of calls/meetings, work plans, collaborator info “Green Home Energy Builder” virtual game Press release CIT 2014 presentation Mid-project report Project update Project outcomes report Project outcomes report 2.0 Creative Commons License:   

The primary goal of the project is to build software and the sharing platform to increase the availability and accessibility of easily adoptable, standardized PowerPoint (PPT) (a Microsoft technology) presentation based data structures and algorithms (DSAs) visualization materials. The proposed approach is expected to promote standardization, centralization and reuse of DSA teaching materials, as well as preparedness of DSA teaching. This project will refine the generators that have been prototyped and implement new DSA generators, focusing upon those taught at primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs). An automated database-and-dispatcher-driven cyber platform, which releases end users from the hassle of running generators, will also be refined. The project will be evaluated at a small scale and the outcomes of the project will be disseminated at the national computer science education conferences.

We propose to introduce a Laboratory Instruction Management System by implementation of electronic notebooks and computerizing data acquisition. Students will plan and document all aspects of an experiment; laboratory instructions will be incorporated into a notebook template and adjusted at the time of preparation for a new experiment. ELN is accessible to the instructor at any step; the report creation will be automatic. Instructor will be able to make the corrections directly in the ELN. Successful completion of this project should serve as a pattern for implementation of LIMS in the educational laboratory environment.