Brown Bag-Dr. Karen Keen and Dr. Bob Young
Please attend the next Brown Bag seminar February 11, 2009 at the Friday Institute on NCSU's Centennial Campus. It will begin with refreshments at 9:00AM with refreshments being served at 8:30AM in the Collaboratory Commons. Our presenters are Karen Keene and Bob Young. The presentation is entitled "Project MINDSET: Developing, implementing, and assessing a new fourth year high school math course".
Project MINDSET (Mathematics INstruction using Decision Science and Engineering Tools) is a 5 year $3,000,000 NSF funded project to develop, implement, and assess a fourth year mathematics course to follow Algebra II and based on operations research and industrial engineering problems. The project is currently in its second year, and has so far trained 37 teachers, and writing a rough draft of one semester of the course. In the brown bag talk, we will present the background of the project, what has happened so far, and the research in progress and to come. Ideas on how to best evaluate the curriculum and implementation will be welcome.
Karen Allen Keene is Assistant Professor of Mathematics Education at NCSU, and co-PI of the MINDSET. After teaching high school mathematics for approximately 15 years, including 4 years at the well-known North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics, she returned to Purdue University and earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics Education in 2006. She has extensive experience working with high school teachers in using technology and in teaching advanced mathematics, and administered a grant to introduce teachers to the Mathematics of Business and Industry. Her current research interests are in the use of technology to improve learning at the high school level, assessment of student understanding, and students’ mathematical participation in differential equations at the university level.
Robert E. Young is Professor of Industrial & Systems Engineering at NCSU, and P.I. for MINDSET, his current research interest. He also has interests in fuzzy mathematics, database applications and information system design for manufacturing. He has worked extensively with the electronic and aerospace industries as a consultant and with them full-time on leaves of absence from academia. He has been a Guest Professor at universities in Denmark, Germany and Austria, and has given workshops in Brazil, Venezula, Germany, Russia and South Africa. He has been working in the area of computer technology for over 40 years and in manufacturing systems since 1975. The author of numerous articles and book chapters and a pair of books on various aspects of manufacturing, and recipient of many research grants, he received his Ph.D. and Masters Degrees in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University, and his Bachelor of Science in Engineering from UCLA.
As always, please join us and encourage your colleagues and students to do the same.
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Dr. Alan Malonely at alan_maloney@ncsu.edu.