Mark Yeary
School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Oklahoma
Tian-You Yu
School
of Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Oklahoma
Robert Palmer
School
of Meteorology
The University of Oklahoma
Michael Biggerstaff
School
of Meteorology
The University of Oklahoma
L. Dee Fink
Instructional
Consultant in Higher Education
Carolyn Ahern
Ahern
and Associates
Keli Pirtle Tarp
National
Severe Storms Laboratory ABSTRACT
This paper describes the details of a National Science Foundation
multi-year educational project at the University of Oklahoma
(OU). The goal of this comprehensive active-learning and hands-on
laboratory program is to develop an interdisciplinary program,
in which engineering, geoscience, and meteorology students
participate, which forms a community of university scholars.
The program is intended to generate a unique, interdisciplinary
research oriented learning environment that will train future
engineers and meteorologists in the full set of competencies
needed to take raw radar data to detect weather and aircraft.
The program involves new coursework and is oriented around
other successful programs to ensure wide distribution by many
students and scientists. Supported by the Division of Undergraduate
at the NSF, the project began with a Phase II grant in the
fall of 2004, which also recently received a Phase II grant
to refine the project through 2010. In keeping with the global
movement of electronic knowledge delivery via written, as
well as visual media, several weblinks have been established
for this paper.
Keywords: interdisciplinary, broad distribution,
multi-function radar
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