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CPU Staff




Software Design & Development Staff
Curriculum Units Primary Authors

CPU Project Staff 1995-2000

Project Director: Fred Goldberg (San Diego State University)

Project Co-Director: Patricia Heller (University of Minnesota)

Development Staff:

Fred Goldberg
Patricia Heller
Sharon Bendall
Robert A. Morse
James Minstrell
Paul Hickman
Jennifer Hickman
Andy Johnson
Valerie Otero
Laura McCullough
Sandra Grindle
Roy McCullough
Jodi McCullough

 

Software Development and Programming:

Physicon Ltd. (Russia), a member of OpenTeach™ Group
Arnold F. McKinley
Joseph Faletti

 

Technical Staff:

Shannel Honore
Michael McKean
Chance Roth
Carlos Lopez
Stacy McGhee
Jonathan Snyder

Undergraduate Assistants:

Madison Fuentes
Jacob Beckman
Brook Smith
Ilana Gold
Thuy Ngo
Lorna Paris
Heidi Reinhold
Amie Risi
Camden Hess
Kristen Hoffman

 

Consultants

Gayle Kirwan
Dean Zollman
Jeremy Roschelle
Patrick Walker
Richard Good
Cindy Riedel
Linda Lenar
David Henry

 

Evaluators:

Douglas Huffman
Francis Lawrenz

 

Video Production:

Patrick Walker, WalkerVision Interarts
Andy Johnson

The Constructing Physics Understanding (CPU) Project is supported by grant No. ESI-9454341 from the National Science Foundation. Partial support has also been provided by San Diego State University. The CPU Simulation Software and Curriculum materials are being distributed by The Learning Team.

 


CPU Software Design & Development Staff

Design of Simulators

Fred Goldberg (all, L&C)
Robert A. Morse (F&M, SE&M)
Joseph Faletti (all)
Arnold F. McKinley (F&M)
Physicon Ltd. (Russia)/OpenTeach™ (all)
Patricia Heller (CE, SPM)
Paul Hickman (W&S)
Patrick Walker (all)
Richard Good (all)
Andy Johnson (Portfolio)
Jonathan Snyder (Portfolio)

Tutorials & Help

Michael E. McKean

 

Simulator Graphics

Chance Roth
Carlos Lopez

 

Java Software Development

Physicon Ltd. (Russia), a member of OpenTeach™ Group

 


CPU Curriculum Units: Primary Authors

Underpinnings

James Minstrell
 

Light and Color

Fred Goldberg
Sandra Grindle
 

Static Electricity & Magnetism

Paul Hickman
Robert A. Morse
Valerie Otero
Andy Johnson
Fred Goldberg
 

Current Electricity

Patricia Heller
Laura McCullough

Force and Motion

Robert A. Morse
Fred Goldberg
Andy Johnson
Valerie Otero
Sandra Grindle
 

Waves and Sound

Paul Hickman
Jennifer Hickman
Jodi McCullough
Roy McCullough
 

Nature of Matter

Patricia Heller
Laura McCullough
 


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