overview_bullets.md

Jupyter notebooks enable engineering students to jump into design work and
experience engineering. 

# Current Knowledge

* "Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a
preparation for life; education is life itself." - John Dewey
* "the point of engineering programs is not to produce mathematicians;
rather, it is to produce individuals that understand the scope and limitations
of mathematical models so that students can practically and creatively apply
such models scientifically to different problems and situations" (Wilkinson,
2013) 
* 11-out-of-26 engineering majors tinkered with projects as children. Kruz and
* 10-out-of-26 engineering majors want a job. Kruz and
* The most important ABET
outcomes ranked by practicing engineers, employers, and recent graduates are
1-problem solving and 2-communication\cite{passow2017,evans1993}.
* Both PBL and PjBL have shown to be effective in
higher education\cite{carlile1998,morrison2004}.  Students
search, solve, create, and share approaches\cite{awang2008} using math models
and measurements. 
* PjBL can have a positive effect on students' attitudes towards the
course\cite{bell2010}.
* Separating body from mind-and recognition from meaning-is a failure on the
 part of education (J. Dewey D&E p179)
* Jupyter noteb

# Gap in Knowledge

* A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human
 beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between
 dwellers under the same roof. (J. Dewey Democracy and Education)

* The goal is to build a community that leverages tinkerers as problem-solving
 mentors to help the job-seekers answer a call to adventure

# Importance of Gap

* Learning without experience is an illusion. 
* In order to fully understand and apply engineering knowledge, students need to
 struggle, experiment, and grow

# Long term Goal

* Long term the goal is to build interactive educational resources to foster
 community in education, because education is built upon experience and
 community

# Overall objective

* The overall objective of this talk is to demonstrate how Jupyter notebooks can
* be used to build genuine design experience 

# Central Hypothesis

* My central hypothesis is that learning is achieved in a social experience
 through trial-and-error <!-- this is the current knowledge-->


# Rationale

I have been teaching for over four years and used Jupyter in a number of
formats: as slides to present information and topics, as lab notebooks for
engineering labs, as homework problems and examples, and as fully interactive
course material. 


# Specific Aims

* I aim to build Jupyter-based resources for engineering students
* The notebooks provide a space to experiment and tinker

* I aim to create community around these notebooks

■ *If you are proposing hypothesis-driven research, write a bullet here
that summarizes the working hypothesis for the first aim. If you are
proposing research that is purely need driven, write a bullet that
summarizes the main approaches/methods that will be employed to complete
the stated task.*

*■ Continue by writing the two bullets described, above, for each of
your aims.*

*■ Delete preceding* Workbook *text.*

***Creativity, Originality and/or Transformative Potential.*** The
purpose of this component is to call attention to why/how the proposed
research differs from what is being done elsewhere. Be sure that any
claim of "transformative potential" that you make is not overreaching on
your part.

■ *Write your bullet(s) here and then delete preceding* Workbook
*text..*

***Expected Outcomes.*** The purpose of Expected Outcomes is to tell
reviewers what each of your aims is expected to produce and how those
products collectively attain the overall objective of the grant
application.

■ *Write a bullet here for the expected outcome of each aim.*

*■ Write a bullet that tells reviewers that the expected outcomes
collectively attain your overall objective for the project.*

*■ Delete the preceding* Workbook *text.*

***Generality Regarding Positive Impact.*** The purpose of this final
bullet is to point out generally that the expected outcomes will
positively impact your field. Collectively, by attaining the overall
objective of the application they will advance the field vertically.
Write the bullet at a general level. Make sure that it creates a
seamless segue into the next, *Expected Significance* section.

■ *Write your bullet here and then delete the preceding* Workbook
*text.*

As a suggestion, once you have completed the outline, leave it alone for
a day or so. Our experience is that, if you do so, invariably you will
be able to improve it. When you have reached the point of diminishing
returns, show it to Co-PIs who are on the application with you. Consider
having students/postdocs who will be involved in the project take a shot
at it. That kind of collective effort will pay big dividends because, if
the outline has been optimized, expanding its bullets into sentences
will create a compelling first draft of your Overview & Objectives
section that will need little refinement.