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## Parameter sweep | ## Parameter sweep | ||
# Building a static model - model area of parts of campus | # Building a static model - model area of parts of campus | ||
| + | # Visualizing data - mashup | ||
# Structural modeling - bridge building (software and physical?) | # Structural modeling - bridge building (software and physical?) | ||
# Equation modeling - water rockets and relationship between launch angle and distance traveled | # Equation modeling - water rockets and relationship between launch angle and distance traveled | ||
# Agent modeling - social systems | # Agent modeling - social systems | ||
| + | # Systems dynamics - population dynamics or medical half-life modeling | ||
# Chaotic systems - climate model | # Chaotic systems - climate model | ||
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Some would be one week long, some two weeks. Make these into links to the units as they are identified. List the high-level attributes for each here as Using a simple dynamic model is. | Some would be one week long, some two weeks. Make these into links to the units as they are identified. List the high-level attributes for each here as Using a simple dynamic model is. | ||
Revision as of 10:14, 4 February 2009
This is meant to be a rough draft of an idea Charlie and I talked about: that we should have a n-by-n matrix of different ideas that we want to make sure we hit. Since an n-by-n matrix is hard to display (especially on a wiki!) it turned into a list instead. Once this is finished, we should make sure that at least one unit addresses each one of these topics.
Initial "dimensions" of the matrix:
Contents
Scientific Disciplines
- Biology
- Chemistry
- Physics
- Geology (earthquakes)
- Environmental science
- One of the social sciences
Potentially:
- Astronomy
Scientific Tools
- Equation-based modeling
- Agent-based modeling: Netlogo or AgentSheets
- Systems-based modeling: Vensim
- Visualization/visual modeling
- Mashups and Google Earth
Potentially
- SecondLife or OpenSim
Foundation Skills
- Creating a graph
- Interpreting a graph
- Basic statistics
- Estimation
- Parameter sweep
- Data collection
Potentially
- Building a physical model
Thoughts
Some of these should go somewhere, and some of these should be in every unit.
- What data do I need to collect, how do I collect it accurately, and then how do I build it
- Perhaps one unit where they have to go out and collect data to see how hard it really is, how about modeling campus (rectangle and heart)
- Data collection: sensor nets, lasers
Course Structure - D R A F T
- What's a model (foundational material that isn't spread-out or requires more than one pass) - no lab
- Using a dynamic model - fire
- Agent modeling with an existing model
- Critical parameter
- Parameter sweep
- Building a static model - model area of parts of campus
- Visualizing data - mashup
- Structural modeling - bridge building (software and physical?)
- Equation modeling - water rockets and relationship between launch angle and distance traveled
- Agent modeling - social systems
- Systems dynamics - population dynamics or medical half-life modeling
- Chaotic systems - climate model
Some would be one week long, some two weeks. Make these into links to the units as they are identified. List the high-level attributes for each here as Using a simple dynamic model is.
