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Rensselaer in Brief
Career forum hosted
The Career Development Center, the Office of Alumni Relations, and the Office of Technology Commercialization will be jointly hosting an Intellectual Property Career Forum 9 am to 3 pm Friday, February 23, in the Heffner Alumni House.
Representatives from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, law firms, and law schools will be available to answer questions at the career fair. Additionally, the Forum will have breakout sessions on careers in intellectual property and a panel discussion on the topic of "Why is IP so hot?"
To register for the event, e-mail Peter Pedone at pedonp@rpi.edu or call (518) 276-6061. Visit http://www.alumni.rpi.edu/ Take_note/ipfair.htm/ to find more information about the event’s schedule. Learning project begins
RPI has just launched a new research project that is intended to improve learning effectiveness in core engineering classes.
Begun February 14 with the presentation of a two-year $300,000 Learning Excellence in Engineering Grant from the General Electric Fund, the project uses an extensive information technology infrastructure to help faculty provide for diverse learning styles.
With the funds, Rensselaer faculty will be able to improve the studio model, created at RPI, with new curricula design and interactive modules that are developed to address the diversity of cognitive and learning styles.
"We are in the silent movie era of educational technology," said Gary Gabriele, Rensselaer vice provost and one of the leaders of the initiative. "Rensselaer saw the technological breakthrough of studio classrooms, but we know we can push the technology even further. The GE Fund has been a strong supporter of many of our education initiatives, including our new O.T. Swanson Multidisciplinary Design Lab, and we’re grateful for their help in this truly groundbreaking effort."
In conjunction with the School of Engineering’s faculty, the Academy of Electronic Media, and the Anderson Center for Innovation in Undergraduate Education, RPI is planning to develop course materials that will enable students to access course materials, lecture notes, instructional modules, and assessment materials through their own computers.
At the end of the project, a "Next Generation Studio Classroom" model will be investigated, which intends to combine distributed learning with enhanced classroom experience.
Joyce Hergenhan, president of the GE Fund, noted, "Every day we see the tremendous changes and opportunities brought about by technology, globalization, and other forces that require creativity and the ability to think in a boundaryless fashion. The Learning Excellence grants support the same kind of transformation of the teaching and learning process, with clear results in terms of student learning."
The GE Fund, a philanthropic organization, was founded by GE to invest in the improvement of the quality and access of education and the strengthening of organizations situated in international GE communities.
The GE Fund and employees and retirees of GE contributed approximately $100 million to education and communities in 2000. Service day held
Rensselaer will be holding the next Community Service Day in its monthly series Saturday, February 24.
The project planned for the day is the clean up of Troy neighborhoods. Volunteers from RPI will help by cleaning trash off sidewalks and streets and possibly also cleaning off some downtown storefronts. The majority of the work will be outdoors.
Those participating in the clean up will receive a bag lunch, and shuttle transportation to the site will be provided, if needed.There is a minimum of two hours required for participation in the community service day and a maximum of seven hours. Volunteers are requested to dress appropriately for their labor by wearing warm clothes suited for dirty work.
Anyone interested must register for the event by February 23 by visiting the service day’s website at http://www.rpi.edu/web/ communityservice/Projects.html, picking up an application form at the Rensselaer Union Administration Office, or by calling 276-6505 to have an application form mailed to you. |
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