Visualization and Simulation Special Interest Group 18 February

Visualization and Simulation Special Interest Group 18 February 2003 All-round Development of Science Students Through Project Courses Outline: * Project objectives * Role of visualization and simulation * Examples: binary pulsar and leaky bucket animations SIG

Project Objectives By introducing project courses, students will have more opportunities to strengthen their skills in: Ù Searching, discovering, integrating and organizing knowledge Ù Collaborative skills Ù Communication skills: Ù Assisting the juniors Ù Presentations to secondary school students SIG 2

Student Involvement Physics 191/291/391 “Directed Studies in Physics” are onecredit courses in which students can work on junior projects. Ù Service awards will be given to students who give talks in secondary schools. Ù Student speakers are encouraged to give their talks in their home schools. Ù Students attended a CELT workshop on multimedia productions in the winter break. Ù SIG 3

Progress Ù Ù Ù Students attended the CELT workshop on multimedia productions in the winter break. A Website is being set up. Four projects were nominated to be adapted for secondary school presentations: Ù Ultraviolet detectors (291 project) Ù Life Out There? (summer project) Ù Mobile Networks (191/391 project) Ù Binary pulsar (191/291/391 project) Several projects in Mathematics may join in the future. Invitation letters were sent to ~20 secondary schools. Ms. Poon, Principal of Sun Kei Secondary School, agreed to coordinate with the secondary schools in Sai Kung district. SIG 4

Animations Ù Animation 1: The lighthouse model of a pulsar Ù Animation 2: Leaky bucket as an analogy to call admission control in mobile networks SIG 5