Preface Acknowledgements
¶Acknowledgement of Support from the National Science Foundation.
In 1996, the Department of Physics at Oregon State University (OSU) began an extensive revision of the upper-division physics major, changing not only the scope and sequence of the courses, but also the entire range of pedagogical strategies. With support from the National Science Foundation in the subsequent 22 years, we completely (re)designed 20 separate courses, wrote 4 textbooks [11-14], and described the scientific aspects of our redesigned curriculum in 21 refereed journal articles [15-35], 26 conference proceedings (of which 24 were refereed) [36-61], a book chapter [62], and 2 essays [63, 64]. We gratefully acknowledge the following support.
- Paradigms in Physics DUE–9653250, $497,063, 1997–01
- Bridging the Vector Calculus Gap DUE–0088901, $112,513, 2001–02
- Bridging the Vector Calculus Gap: Episode II DUE–0231032, $217,039, 2003–06
- Paradigms in Physics: Faculty Materials DUE–0231194, $99,941, 2003–07
- Paradigms in Physics: Multiple Entry Points DUE–0618877, $498,124, 2006–09
- Paradigms in Physics: Energy and Entropy DUE–0837829, $44,563, 2009–13
- Paradigms in Physics: Electromagnetism DUE–1023120, $440,408, 2010–14
- Computational Physics Lab DUE–1141330, $124,236, 2012–15
- Paradigms in Physics: Partial Derivatives DUE–1323800, $649,293, 2013–18
- Paradigms in Physics: Second Generation Dissemination Strategies DUE–1836603, $298,948, 2019–21
- Paradigms in Physics: Representations in Quantum Mechanics DUE–1836604, $299,282, 2019–21
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under the Grant Nos. listed above. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.