…they design. OpenStudio, however, doesn’t quite do the job one would like to get done (judged from a demo video). The image below, taken from Wikipedia, is what we have…
…it a better teaching tool than a text book illustration? Let’s start with a real world example. Imagine a closed glass bottle with some liquid at the bottom. There are…
…about this, the simulations run in classrooms may have far exceeded those run for research–by any standard. What does this teach us? The first lesson we learned is that computational…
…variety of the molecules we can make is limited and the molecules cannot have too many atoms. When computers were powerful enough to support 3D video gaming, chemistry educators realized…
…of assessment, the richness of information expressed in these simulations has much to offer to research and evaluation about using computer simulations in the classroom. As a Chinese proverb says:…
…things work in the microscopic world is fundamentally important to science and engineering education in this century. The micro world is essentially operated by quantum mechanics, which is traditionally very…
…shows. Whether we’re giving advice to President Obama, imagining a world beyond textbooks, or giving you free online lessons to use next Monday, we’re interested in asking good questions about…
…is just a shared-memory supercomputer condensed to a laptop box. Molecular dynamics is a “lab rat” for parallel computing research, because it is relatively simple to implement and study. Given…
Photonics is a difficult subject because it involves electromagnetism that is basically an invisible and unintuitive world to many students. Yet this is a promising and thriving technical field where…
The basic concepts of evolutionary theory are contained in the National Science Education Standards (National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1966) as well as those of the various states. For example,…