TY - GEN
T1 - Multi-campus courses via video conference
T2 - ITHET 2005: 6th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, 2005
AU - Colom, José G.
AU - Cruz-Pol, Sandra
AU - Marrero, Víctor
AU - Bringi, Viswanathan
AU - Droegemeier, Kelvin K.
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - In order to increase the level and continuity of research at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been developed and signed between this institution and two universities in the U.S. to establish a collaborative doctoral program. The students accepted in this program will obtain their PhD degrees from one of the U.S. universities, but will perform most of their research work at UPRM. As part of these Collaborative Programs and as part of the NSF Engineering Research center CASA, the students have the capability to take courses given by faculty in other campuses and attend research meetings via video conferencing. This effort has been possible thanks to the strong collaboration among professors from the four campuses involved in the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere Engineering Research Center (CASA). The CASA core partners are UPRM, CSU, OU and UMass. Two such courses took place in the Spring semester of 2005; these are "Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar" by Dr. V. Bringi from CSU and "Hazardous Weather Detection" by Kelvin Droegemeier from OU. Another course in the fall of 2003 was also offered from OU to UPRM students by Dr. Yeary. Some of the challenges found during the development of these courses have been administrative, technical and of personnel.
AB - In order to increase the level and continuity of research at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been developed and signed between this institution and two universities in the U.S. to establish a collaborative doctoral program. The students accepted in this program will obtain their PhD degrees from one of the U.S. universities, but will perform most of their research work at UPRM. As part of these Collaborative Programs and as part of the NSF Engineering Research center CASA, the students have the capability to take courses given by faculty in other campuses and attend research meetings via video conferencing. This effort has been possible thanks to the strong collaboration among professors from the four campuses involved in the Collaborative Adaptive Sensing of the Atmosphere Engineering Research Center (CASA). The CASA core partners are UPRM, CSU, OU and UMass. Two such courses took place in the Spring semester of 2005; these are "Polarimetric Doppler Weather Radar" by Dr. V. Bringi from CSU and "Hazardous Weather Detection" by Kelvin Droegemeier from OU. Another course in the fall of 2003 was also offered from OU to UPRM students by Dr. Yeary. Some of the challenges found during the development of these courses have been administrative, technical and of personnel.
KW - Collaborative PhD degree
KW - Educational Model
KW - Multi-campus course
KW - Underrepresented student
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U2 - 10.1109/ITHET.2005.1560325
DO - 10.1109/ITHET.2005.1560325
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33845343215
SN - 0780391411
SN - 9780780391413
T3 - ITHET 2005: 6th International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training, 2005
SP - S3A-7-S3A-9
BT - Proceedings - Thirteenth International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning, TIME 2006
Y2 - 7 July 2005 through 9 July 2005
ER -