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July 1, 2016 to June 30, 2018

Teaching and Learning

The primary objective is to teach ~1.5X courses than normal faculty and the secondary objectives are as follows:

  1. Pedagogical or curricular innovation, including: the development of new instructional materials such as audio-visual units, online course materials; major curricular revisions; introduction of innovative teaching techniques; development of online or hybrid courses.
  2. Use of longitudinal measurements to demonstrate impacts of the candidate’s teaching on students’ learning outcomes, including their gains in mastery of course content, changes in attitude towards content, improvement in critical thinking, or development of stronger communication skills.
  3. Demonstration of reflective practice, including the informed use of data to monitor and assess student learning. Descriptions of these efforts should include the reasoning for adopting specific teaching approaches, how feedback from students was solicited and used, and the rationale for instituting changes in teaching
  4. Peer review of teaching by faculty, including evaluation of classroom and online materials. See UCD 220 for additional information on peer review of teaching.

EME 150A [Fall 2016]

ENG 122 [Fall 2016]

  • [x] 1/4 in class time spent learning through computation (a)
  • [x] development of interactive Jupyter notebook series that is start of a textbook (a)

ENG 122 [Fall 2017]

  • [x] wrote first draft of interactive text book (a)
  • [x] developed "resonance", a software package for learning vibrations and dynamic systems (a)
  • [x] flipped class to active learning through live computing (a)
  • [x] created a JupyterHub server for College of Engineering use (a)
  • [x] developed custom comp. homeworks with nbgrader (a, b)
  • [x] developed new project (a)

EME 185A/B [Winter/Spring 2017]

  • [x] grow project solicitation
  • [x] better client feedback
  • [x] first draft of instructor guide
  • [x] collaborations
  • [x] further develop rubrics
  • [x] took students to cambodia
  • Visited CSU senior design and met Rustin

EME 185A/B [Winter/Spring 2018]

  • [x] 100 students, 22 projects
  • [x] spring: 22 hours of meetings per week
  • [x] added in gantt chart lesson
  • [x] added in FEA lesson
  • [x] Took students to Japan
  • [x] Meijo/UCD competition and visit here
  • [x] Create software to present peer eval data to students and me
  • [x] enhance and lengthen arduino lesson (a)
  • [x] collaborations
  • Participated in Fall info session
  • Ralph Hotchkins visited
  • [x] worked with Kara on assessment

MAE 223 [Fall 2017]

  • [x] prepared a new course
  • [x] heavy introduction of software and live coding (a)
  • [x] created x notebooks (a)
  • [x] posted all lecture videos and course notes online
  • [x] added trajectory optimization section

MAE 297 [Spring 2018]

  • [x] made website
  • [x] posted videos
  • [x] invited a MacArthur Fellow
  • [x] diverse speakers

Mentoring

Graduate [5]

  • Björn Dahlgren (May 2017-August 2017 GSoC)
  • Kenny Lyons (June 2017-September 2017 GSR for Resonance project)
  • Abe McKay (February 2017-June 2018 graduated with thesis June 2018)
  • Sui Nam Chan (February 2017-December 2017 MSc Committee graduated)
  • Farhad Ghadamli (November 2016-September 2017 MSc Committee graduated)

Graduate Teaching Assistants [5]

  • Destiny Garcia
  • Ian Garretson
  • Naveen Gowrishankar
  • Scott Kresie
  • Kenneth Lyons

Post graduate [3]

  • Scott Kresie (January 2017-October 2017)
  • Aaron Shaw (June 2017-present)
  • Britt Tarien (June 2018-present)

Undergraduate [11]

  • Vien Bui
  • Bryn Cloud (June 2018-present)
  • Nikhil Pappu (May 2018-August 2018 GSoC)
  • Ada Liu (June 2018-present)
  • Trevor Metz (June 2018-present)
  • James Brandon Milam (May 2016-August 2016)
  • Jake Parkhurst
  • Sampad Saha (May 2016-August 2016)
  • Jashanpreet Singh (May 2018-August 2018 GSoC)
  • Aaron Shaw (March 2016-June 2017)
  • Andrew Shoats (January 2017-July 2017)
  • Vivian Tran

Student Teams [2]

  • [x] Quadrapeligic Friendly Tricyle Team
  • [x] Solar Boat Team (2nd Place in 2017 and 2018)

Workshops Taught

[7]

  • [x] gave 1 day R workshop to LPSOEs (August 25 2016)
  • [x] gave PyDy tutorial at SciPy 2016
  • [x] helper at SymPy tutorial at SciPy 2016
  • [x] Delta Stewardship Council SWC workshop
  • [x] Co-developed and delivered sympy code gen (July 2017)
  • [x] enabled bicitech blender workshop (Nov 1-2 2017)
  • [x] comp thinking in stem with Downey (January 2018)

Guest Lectures

  • [x] guest lecture in EME 1 (Kong) Nov 28 Fall 2016
  • [x] guest lecture in Kurt's class Winter 2017
  • [x] guest lecture in MAE 223 (Eke) Spring 2017
  • [x] guest scorer in Jean's ENG 3

Other

  • Participated in EELC
  • EELC blog
  • Met with Dean about engineering book
  • Toured Hooman's lab and gave feedback on skills needed from 100
  • MIV training October 3, 2016
  • MAE retreat Oct 7
  • davis swc group (met once)
  • [x] Abe's trip to kenya
  • [x] Took 3 students to cambodia
  • [x] invited carlos from maya pedal (Nov 1-2)

Professional Achievement and Activities

  1. research and publication on pedagogy
  2. research and publication in subject-matter discpline
  3. activity in professionl organizations

Best list of my publications is probably my Zotero page: https://www.zotero.org/moorepants/

Books

  • First draft of interactive textbook: "Resonance: Learning Vibrations Through Computation" (a)

Papers

Journal

Conference

  • An Optimal Handling Bicycle (b)
  • ICSC optimal bicyce paper (b)
  • ICSC handling experiments paper (b)

Web Articles

  • EELC EME 150A Blog post (a)
  • EELC Resonance Blog Post (a)

Talks

  • SacPy (a)
  • Education graduate group talk on resonance (a)
  • Meijo bicycle talk (b)
  • SciPy 2018 talk (by Kenny) (a)
  • Developed talk to give to prospective students at Decision Day
  • Gave talk to Physics code review group for Azalee

Collaborators

  • Anthony Scopatz USC, Kyle Neimier Oregon State, Aaron Meuere
  • Delmar Larsen
  • Abraha and Oshima
  • SymPy developers

Proposals

Awarded [10]

  • [x] $22,188, July 2017-April 2018, Sole PI, "Development of an interactive Textbook Backed by Cloud Infrastructure to Pilot Active Computational Learning in an Upper Level Mechanical Engineering Course", UCD Center for Educational Effectiveness (a)
  • [x] $24,000, February 2018-January 2020, Sole PI, "Influence of Culture on Mechanical Design: A Proposal For an Undergraduate Exchange and Design Competition Between Japanese and American Students", UCD Global Affairs (a)
  • [x] $3,250, June 2016-May 2017, Sole PI, Student submitted, "The Quadriplegia-Friendly Bike", CITRIS Tech for Social Good
  • [x] $775, April 2017-September 2017, Sole PI, Student submitted, "Cambodia Hand Washing Station", CITRIS Tech for Social Good
  • [x] $58.5k May 2017-August 2017, Co-PI with SymPy Mentors, "Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization" (a,b)
  • [x] $45.5k May 2018-August 2018, Co-PI with SymPy Mentors, "Google Summer of Code Mentoring Organization" (a,b)
  • [x] $3,430, June 2017-September 2017, Sole PI of student submitter Abraham McKay, "Bicycle Powered Irrigation Pump", UCD Blum Center Application for Poverty Alleviation through Sustainable Solutions (b)
  • [x] $??, June 2017-September 2017, Sole PI of student submitter Purva Juvekar, "Floating School Hand Washing Station", UCD Blum Center (b)
  • [x] $??, June 2017-September 2017, Sole PI of student submitter Samira Iqbal, "Floating School Hand Washing Station", UCD Blum Center (b)
  • [x] $??, July 2018-August 2018, Co-PI with Susan Handy and others, "Transportation Cluster", UCD COSMOS (a)

Failed [2]

  • [x] $3M total, ~$200k to Jason, "Collaborative Research: Dissemination of the LibreTexts Libraries through Expansion and Training in Digital Interfaces to Enhance Science Education across the Nation" (a) - Submitted December 12, 2017 - Exact amount: $2999921 ($1986470) - Duration: 2018-06-01 to 2023-05-31 - Also favorable reviews
  • [x] $3M total, $567k to Jason, "Collaborative Research: SI2-SSI: Infrastructure for Cross-Disciplinary Scientific Computation Through Optimized Symbolic Code Generation with SymPy" - Submitted September 20, 2016 - Duration: 2017-07-01 to 2020-06-30 - Rejected with very favorable reviews, planning to resubmit

Editor

  • Open engineering (c)
  • JOSE (c)

Reviews

  • reviewed 10 SciPy 2017 tutorials (c)
  • reviewed Scipy 2018 tutorials (c)
  • 1 open engineering review (c)
  • BMD submissions

Conferences

[7]

  • [x]Attended, presented at, was on scientific committee, and organazing committee at BMD 2016 Milwaukee
  • [x]Attended UCD SOTL 2016 Nov 17-18
  • [x]Attended and taught workshop at SciPy 2017
  • [x]Attended, collaborators presented at, and was lead organizer at ICSC 2017 (a)
  • [x]Attended UCD STOL 2017 (b)
  • [x]Attended and lead round table at UCD assessement symposium (b)
  • [x]Kenny presented on my behalf at SciPy 2018 (a, b)

Software

Development and maintener work on:

  • resonance (a)
  • opty (b)
  • sympy (a, b)
  • pydy (a, b)
  • skijumpdesign (b)
Maintainer of 13 packages on PyPi (downloads as of Oct 10)
  • DynamicistToolkit 34345
  • yeadon 23425
  • BicycleParameters 17261
  • resonance 17257
  • pydy 15175
  • GaitAnalysisToolKit 9343
  • ipopt 6549
  • opty 5610
  • BicycleDataProcessor 4569
  • pydy-code-gen 3747
  • pydy-viz 3763
  • skijumpdesign 1766
Maintainer or co-maintainer of 20 packages on Conda Forge (downloads as of Aug 8, 2018):
  • plotly, 219k downloads
  • cyipopt, 15k downloads
  • pydy, 11k downloads
  • feedgenerator, 9k downloads
  • opty, 6k downloads
  • pyinstrument, 6k downloads
  • resonance, 6k downloads
  • slycot, 6k downloads
  • yeadon, 6k downloads
  • control, 5k downloads
  • simbody, 5k downloads
  • version_information, 5k downloads
  • dash, 3k downloads
  • dash-core-components, 3k downloads
  • dash-renderer, 3k downloads
  • pyinstrument_cext, 3k downloads
  • dash-html-components, 2k downloads
  • dynamacisttoolkit, 1k downloads
  • bicycleparameters, 904 downloads
  • skijumpdesign, 513 downloads

University and Public Service

  1. Service (with dates and responsibilities identified) in departmental, college, Academic Senate and administrative capacities. Evaluation of the quality of service and contributions made in these areas is expected.
  2. Academic leadership within the University. A Lecturer SOE or Senior Lecturer SOE who serves as department or program chair is entitled to the same recognition accorded ladder-rank faculty who serve in this role (see APM 245-11). Academic leadership in other roles should be recognized similarly, especially when such leadership provides evidence of innovative professional contributions. Examples of such accomplishments include leadership in reforming curricula, the development of innovative advising programs, or creation of new programs establishing links to public schools.
  3. Community (regional, state, national, international) service based upon professional expertise.
  4. Contributions to student welfare on the UC Davis campus or UC system-wide.
  5. Professionally based outreach to other educational entities such as K-12 schools, museums, clubs, etc.
  6. Communication to the public based on professional expertise.

Internal

  • Served on UGEP one week [2016-10 to 2016-11]
  • [x] Served on the MAE undergraduate committee [2016-11 to present] (a)
  • [x] Served on the MAE website committee [2017-06 to present]
  • [x] Alternate on CoE IT Committee [2017-04-21 to present]
  • [x] ABET assessments in EME 185, worked with Jenny Quynn and steven
  • [x] Developed talk to give to prospective students at Decision Day
  • [x] Master of Ceremony for MAE MS graduates
  • [x] Organized student celebration for Joseph Goodwin (d)
  • Reviewed Cristina's Systems Engineering proposal

External

  • [x] Attended Greg Tanner's memorial (d)
  • [x] Sent interview email to Huffington Post (f)
  • [x] presented MAE design activities for laguna high school with barbara (e)
  • [x] New York Times Article https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/23/well/as-easy-as-riding-a-bike.html (f)
  • [x] Presented at SacPy (f)
  • [x] Press about ICSC 2017 (NPR, etc) (f)
  • [x] Visit to Technip
  • [x] Visit to DMG Mori
  • [x] Public workshops
  • Hoof and Foot Art Musuem Movie (e)
  • Visited B. Dillion Engineering
  • Professors domes dinner (d)