Coding the GIRs

Principal Investigator
Prof. W Carter, Materials Science and Engineering; Dr. Peter Dourmashkin, Physics; Kyle Keane, Materials Science and Engineering
Fund: d'Arbeloff Fund
Funding Period: AY2019
Department/Lab/Center: Materials Science and Engineering

CodeSeal is a set of software tools that introduces students to coding in the context of what they are learning in their traditional subjects. While learning new concepts in science, math, or the arts, students concurrently construct algorithmic models, develop numerical and symbolic code, and create visualizations of those new concepts. This project identifies and catalogues 3-4 computational activities for students to build their algorithmic reasoning within the context of the physics GIRs and does some exploratory work for future extensions into math and chemistry.