The Witten Faculty Awards are made possible by the generous donation of Cal Poly alumnus Wesley Witten. Given on an annual basis, the $3000 awards are provided as grant writing support. Awardees are selected from a cross campus applicant pool, with proposals focused on supporting CESaME's primary goals:
The 2008 Witten Award Program RFP is now available. Applications are due Friday, February 15th, 2008.
2007 Recipients |
Proposal |
Bryan Mealy
Electrical Engineering |
Project-based Sustainable Engineering for Enhancing Middle Schools. Project seeks to develop curricula/teaching materials to introduce the concept of Sustainable Engineering in middle schools. |
Dennis Fantin
Chemistry/Biochemistry |
Laboratory Chemistry for Students with Vision Impairments. Project seeks to develop and test new methods that will allow blind and low-vision students to independently perform experiments, acquire data and make observations in high school chemistry courses. Phase one of will develop/test laboratory protocols and techniques, accessible instrumentation, and curriculum aids (molecular modeling set). |
Fei Wang
Electrical Engineering |
Nano-materials and devices integrate research and education of all ages. Participating high school students will work closely with faculty, graduate and undergraduate students on fabrication and characterization of nano-devices for information storage purpose. |
Jasna Jovanovic and
Jennifer Jipson
Psychology & Chilld Development |
The Impact of Parent-Child Conversations about Science on Children’s Science Attitudes. The proposed project examines parent-child interactions during visits to an informal sciencelearning center. We will investigate potential motivations underlying the ways parents talk about science with their children and how girls’ attitudes toward science are impacted by these interactions. |
Ignatios Vakalis, et al
Computer Science |
Seeking NSF funds for a multi-year project to promote Computer Science and related disciplines (i.e., Computational Science and Modeling) to high schools students, particularly women and minorities. |
Lynne Slivovsky
Electrical Engineering |
Bridging Informal and Formal K-12 Education Through Service Learning. Seeking an NSF Informal Education grant to conduct summer workshops to design and build traveling exhibits as a mechanism for teachers to integrate the educational content in a meaningful way in their classrooms. |
Jeff Jacobs
Natural Resource Management |
Improving Student Environmental Literacy: A Program Improvement Process. This project will implement a Program Improvement Process, which will create stronger environmental education experiences for youth and will help K-12 educators to be successful in advancing environmental literacy. |
2006 Recipients |
Proposal |
Kathy Chen
Materials Engineering |
Engineering a new pipeline for STEM teachers. |
Susan Duffy
LIberal Studies |
Environmental Literacy: Advocacy and Education through an Integrated Curriculum |
Dennis Fantin
Chemistry |
Laboratory Chemistry for Students with Vision Impairments |
Bob Field
Physics |
Global Evolution Education Program |
Al Liddicoat
Electrial Engineering |
with David Cantu (MESA) and Michael Black (Biology): Cal Poly NSF GK-12 |
Lou Rosenberg
(College of Education and Materials Engineering)
|
Time Lapse Video as Constructivist Learning Tool for K-12 Science Curriculum |
