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Wednesday, July 26, 2017
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CANCELLED:
Online Teaching and Learning Strategies
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: In this fully online course, we will introduce you to current research and best practices for online teaching as well as showcase examples of successful teaching strategies for the online environment. Throughout the course you will work both independently and collaboratively with your peers to gain valuable online course transition experience and develop your own strategies for online teaching and learning. As a participant, you will learn both pedagogical aspects of teaching online as well as how to use and incorporate many of the tools available in the myCourses Learning Management System used at UMassD. The ultimate goal of the course is to have you begin planning, organizing, and building the online course you eventually plan to teach. In addition, this course will introduce you to techniques that will teach you how to self-assess course site design to ensure student ease of access to course content and to facilitate more streamlined student learning and increase retention.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty
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Mechanical Engineering MS Project Presentation by Mr. Brian K. Mingels
- Location: Textiles Building 101E
- Contact: Mechanical Engineering Department
- Description: The Mechanical Engineering Department is pleased to announce the following:
Mechanical Engineering (MNE) Master of Science (MS) Project Presentation by Mr. Brian K. Mingels
DATE:
Wednesday, July 26, 2017
TIME:
11:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
LOCATION:
Textile Building, Room 101E
TOPIC:
Improving the Scaling of the Ekman Depth in the Bay of Bengal Using Numerical Ocean Models
ABSTRACT:
The Ekman layer is a vertically distributed flow field in the upper ocean where the divergence of the turbulent
momentum flux is balanced by the Coriolis force. The Bay of Bengal has a strongly stratified upper-ocean caused
by monsoon rainfall and fresh water river discharge. Strong stratification in the Bay of Bengal heavily influences the structure of the upper-ocean by modifying the distribution of near-surface current velocities. In 1972 Raymond Pollard derived a scaling to the Ekman depth which includes stratification. His solution shows that there is an equal contribution from stratification and the Coriolis parameter which may not be true when there is strong stratification in the upper-ocean such as in the Bay of Bengal. Using a numerical ocean model to calculate nearsurface current velocities in the Bay of Bengal, I evaluated a more accurate scaling for the depth of the Ekman layer. I optimized the scaling parameters in a modified version of Pollard's scaling to fit the data from the model.
Previous unpublished attempts without the use of a model suggested that Pollard's scaling could be correct but
these results lacked confidence due to insufficient data. Results from the model show that Pollard's original
scaling, although close, does not fall in the range of our fit, which suggests Coriolis and stratification are not weighted equally when there is strong stratification in the upper-ocean.
ADVISOR:
Dr. Amit Tandon, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMD (atandon@umassd.edu, 508.999.8357)
COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Dr. Raymond Laoulache, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMD
Dr. Sanjiv Ramachandran, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMD
Open to the public. All MNE students are encouraged to attend.
- Topical Areas: Faculty, General Public, Staff and Administrators, Students, Students, Graduate, Students, Undergraduate, University Community, College of Engineering, Mechanical Engineering
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CANCELLED:
Blended Learning: Finding the Mix
- Location: Online
- Contact: CITS Instructional Development
- Description: This blended workshop is an introduction to the best practices of blended teaching and learning. A mix of online collaboration and face-to-face activities will prepare participants to design their own plan for blended instruction.
Note: Face-to-face meetings are scheduled for Wednesday Jul 26th and Aug 2nd from 3:00pm - 4:00pm in the Claire T. Library, room TBD.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, topic: Faculty Development
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Excel Pivot Tables
- Location: Claire T. Carney Library
, 285 Old Westport Road, Dartmouth, MA
- Cost: Free!
- Contact: > See Description for contact information
- Description: This workshop provides a thorough exploration of the use of tables, pivot tables and pivot charts in Excel. Participants create pivot tables to summarize hundreds of rows of transactional data in just a few clicks, without complex formulas, or time-consuming grouping and reorganization. Previous Excel experience is required.
Note that this workshop has been moved to the Liberal Arts building, room 203.
Contact Rich Legault for more information at 508-999-8799,
or email RLegault@umassd.edu.
Seating is limited, so please register today!
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Everyone
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ProCard & Travel Card Training
- Location: Foster Administration Building, Room 223
- Contact: Purchasing
- Description: This 1 hour training class is required in order to obtain a University Procurement Card (Procard & Travel Card). Individuals may attend training either before or after submitting a Procard application, either way this training must be completed before an application receives final approval from Procurement.
- Topical Areas: Training, Workshop, audience: Faculty, audience: Staff
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