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University Curricula and Teaching Materials

The goal of this page is to share materials and information regarding the teaching of space physics.

During the AGU Fall Meeting of 2019 the following session was held: “ED028. Forum on University Curricula and Teaching Materials for Space Physics and Heliophysics”

Session Description

The last decade has seen extensive development of curricula in space physics and heliophysics, covering topics in solar physics, the heliosphere, geospace, planetary magnetospheres, planetary ionosphere- thermospheres, and space weather. These curricula include intense workshops and summer schools, undergraduate majors or certifications, and curricula for graduate studies. Additionally, a number of resources have become available including books, websites, and computer simulations. Thus, we believe it is timely to hold a session to showcase these resources and current practices. The goals of this session include: (1) identifying populations that participate in space physics curricula and highlighting the learning goals for these populations, (2) sharing available teaching materials and best- practices, and (3) sharing evaluation results where appropriate. We seek abstracts related to all types of space physics (and space weather) curricula and resources, including undergraduate or graduate course materials, degree programs, summer schools, workshops, textbooks, and online resources.

Below are the titles and abstracts from the session along with links to the presentations and posters and contact information for the authors.

 

Undergraduate Programs

Joseph B. H. Baker bakerjb@vt.edu Virginia Polytechnic Institute A Comprehensive Undergraduate Curriculum for Space Physics and Engineering
William “Trey” Cade William_Cade@baylor.edu Baylor Univ. An Inquiry-Based Approach to Teaching Space Weather to Undergraduate Non-Science Majors
Anna Chulaki anna.chulaki@gmail.com CCMC/GSFC/NASA Space Weather REDI: using space weather analysis and forecasting tools and simulations in heliophysics education
Robert Clark richard.clark@millersville.edu Millersville Educating Students in Experimental Space Physics and Heliophysics
Ramon Lopez relopez@uta.edu Univ. of Texas, Arlington What can space physics education learn from physics education research?
Martin A Snow snow@lasp.colorado.edu CU Boulder/LASP Boulder Solar Alliance REU Boot Camp
Charles Swenson charles.swenson@usu.edu Utah State Univ. Educating Students in Experimental Space Physics and Heliophysics

 

Graduate Programs

Amitava Bhattacharjee amitava@princeton.edu Princeton Univ. Teaching Heliophysics from a Curriculum
Paul Cassak Paul.Cassak@mail.wvu.edu West Virginia University Non-traditional Instructional Approaches and Assessment of Graduate Plasma Physics Courses at West Virginia University
Thomas Cravens cravens@ku.edu University of Kansas Space Physics for a Small Program: What topics need to be covered?
Peter A Delamere padelamere@alaska.edu Univ. of Alaska Exploring space physics under the aurora borealis: The University of Alaska Fairbanks Space Physics graduate program
Elizabeth A Kendall elizabeth.kendall@sri.com SRI International Equipping the Workforce with Space Weather Measurement and Interpretation Skills: The Incoherent Scatter Radar Summer School
Ian Robert Mann ian.mann@ualberta.ca ketil.roed@fys.uio.no Univ. of Alberta The CaNoRock Undergraduate Student Rocket School
Kathryn A McWilliams kathryn.mcwilliams@usask.ca Univ. of Saskatchewan CaNoRock STEP: The Canada-Norway Rocket Science Training and Educational Program
Adnane Osmane adnane.osmane@helsinki.fi Univ. of Helsinki Space physics curriculum and associated learning goals for graduate students at the University of Helsinki.
Laureline Sangalli Laureline.Sangalli@rmc.ca Royal Military College of Canada The International Space Mission, a Canada-Norway collaborative training program
Joachim Saur saur@geo.uni-koeln.de Univ. of Cologne Space and Planetary Sciences at the University of Cologne, Germany
Kanako Seki k.seki@eps.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp Univ. of Tokyo Introduction of the space physics and heliophysics education at the University of Tokyo
Stanley C Solomon stans@ucar.edu UCAR Twenty Years of Space Weather Summer School
Zoltan Sternovsky Zoltan.Sternovsky@lasp.colorado.edu LASP/University of Colorado Space Instrumentation – University of Colorado

 

 

Individual Courses

Jacob Bortnik jbortnik@gmail.com UCLA Equipping undergraduates in the physical sciences with critical machine learning skills
Richard Eugene Denton richard.e.denton@dartmouth.edu Dartmouth Teaching computational plasma physics
Eric Donovan edonovan@ucalgary.ca University of Calgary Moving Test Particles in an Empirical E & B Model as a Way to Develop a ‘Feel’ for the Magnetosphere
Raluca Ilie rilie@illinois.edu University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Learning by Immersion: Developing Virtual Reality Labs for Electricity and Magnetism Courses
Michael Liemohn liemohn@umich.edu University of Michigan Ann Arbor The Zoo of Metrics: Teaching a Robust Set of Data-Model Comparison Techniques for Space Physics
Robert Marshall robert.marshall@colorado.edu University of Colorado at Boulder Space Environment and Effects: an Undergraduate Course for both Potential Space Scientists and Casual Space Enthusiasts

 

Materials and Resources

Jukka Kallio esa.kallio@aalto.fi Aalto Univ.  Touching space: Space physics demonstrators at Aalto University
Delores Knipp dknipp@agu.org CU Boulder A Case Study for Space Weather Evidenced-based Teaching and Learning: The Storm Events During Early September 2017
Jennifer Knuth jennifer.knuth@lasp.colorado.edu LASP/University of Colorado The Space Weather TREC Space Weather Portal: A Tool for Enabling Research and Education
Hunter Leise hunter.leise@lasp.colorado.edu LASP/University of Colorado LISIRD: An Online Resource for Making Solar Data More Accessible

 

Uncategorized

James P Sheerin jsheerin@emich.edu Eastern Michigan University Incorporating NASA Resources in Introductory University Courses Covering Space Physics
Jiuhou Lei leijh@ustc.edu.cn University of Science and Technology of China Education programs and curriculum element of Space Physics in University of Science and Technology of China
Jan Sojka janjsojka@usu.edu Utah State Univ. The Space Physics and Aeronomy Curricula in the Physics Department at Utah State University
Mihir Indrajit Desai mdesai@swri.edu SWRI Space & Planetary Science-Focused PhD Curriculum at the University of Texas at San Antonio and the Southwest Research Institute

 

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