COLLEGE OF IMAGING ARTS AND SCIENCES
School of Photographic Arts and Sciences
ANNUAL FACULTY REPORT AND EVALUATION OF PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
for the period of December 1, 2009 through November 30, 2010.
Name: ANDREW DAVIDHAZY
Department: School of Photo Arts and Sciences
Highest Degree & date: M.F.A., 1968
Date of first appointment to RIT : 07-01-66
Rank: PROFESSOR
Date present rank achieved: 1986
REVIEW of 2010-2011 PLAN of WORK and
Proposed PLAN of WORK for 2011-2012 and coming year(s).
1. Teaching/Advising
a. List courses taught (including credit hours, enrollment and any TA support)
ACCOUNTING
OF
TEACHING
ACTIVITIES
WINTER 2010-11 (102)
course title
course number
credit hours
enrollment
I was on sabbatical but nevertheless volunteered to help out by running the
following course:
1. HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY
3
17
SPRING 2010-11 (103)
course title
course number
credit hours
2076 511 01
enrollment
I was on sabbatical but nevertheless volunteered to help out by running the
following course:
1. SURVEY OF NON-CONVEN. IMAGING
3
6
FALL
2011-12 (111)
course title
course number
credit hours
1. HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY
3
20
2. PHOTOINSTRUMENTATION
4
4
2076 503 01
enrollment
2076 511 70
2076 461 70
1) As in past years I have never used a TA or GA in any of my classes.
b. Given your 2010-2011 plan of work, provide a thoughtful review of what you
have achieved relative to what you planned to do in the area of
teaching/advising. Be sure to include an analysis of student evaluations
indicating areas of strength and weaknesses as well as actions taken to address
concerns. Original documentation should not be submitted, but it should be
available upon request. (Depending on what your plan of work called for, examples
of such documentation could include one or more of the following: student
performance data, student evaluations, curricula/syllabi for new or revised
courses, advising logs/evaluations)
Even though I could technically been away from the Institute in the Winter and
Spring quarters I volunteered to stay in town instead and teach at least one
course each of these quarters. The initial experience was quite disappointing.
Many of the students who were enrolled (all from another major than the IPT
major) were unprepared for the rigors of a technical course and complained about
my teaching “style” to administration. I had never had such a thing happen in the
past 30 years of teaching. Consequently I modified the technical content of the
second course I offered in the Spring and also lowered the technical rigor and
demands of my Fall 110-11 courses. In spite of this the grade distribution still
indicates that the students overall are less technically proficient than in past
years.
To document my teaching “style” in case anyone would want to review how I run at
least the lecture portion of my classes I video taped just about all my lectures
in the High Speed Photography course this pastFall and put these on Youtube. This
was actually done more in order to help students review concepts covered in the
lectures in case some point was not clear or if for some reason they had to be
absent during a particular lecture. This was received well by the class. These
are a couple of candid
photos from my
Photoinstrumentation class
and the High Speed
Photography class.
On reviewing the student feedback/evaluations using
the RIT computerized teachaer evaluation system the
response from students this Fall was about the same
as it has been fo many years.
On this point however, in my opinion evaluations
that students might provide after they have been
away from the school and are working in industry are
a much better way to collect feedback and learn from
than those filled out in class when the students
don't really have a good idea of how the course
contents impacts on-the-job. As in past years, in
addition to the evaluations available through the
RIT system, I have continued to encourage my students to use a web-based
evaluation service at http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/. I don’t know what my
current “ratings” are there but I seem to be doing OK in terms of level of
difficulty, helpfulness and overall quality.
My perception from these various methods of gathering feedback is that students
generally find me knowledgeable, approachable and helpful but sometimes lacking
in apparent organization. I am a strong believer in having students learn by
“finding out” answers to problems rather then spoon feeding them with directions.
On Halloween 2011 (Oct. 31) I took the
team that prepared a proposal for NASA
JSC's Undergraduate Microgravity Flight
Opportunity out for dinner at
Michelina's down West Henrietta Road.
Several Italian selection entrees and
salad and drink plus animated
conversation.
I organized for the Technical Photography
Student Association a club field trip to
NASA Glenn Research Center located in
Cleveland, Ohio. The visit took place on
October 28 and the group was comprised of
Tech and Biomed students. From all
reports they had an enjoyable and
informative experience. Their trip was
listed in Club News, a publication of the
SAU Clubs organization.
I attended all but one meeting of the Technical
PhotographyStudent Association last year. In the photo
at left was a picnic at Charlotte Beach planned by the
group.
For next year my plan of work vis-à-vis teaching and
advising is to: Offer the same courses as I did this
past year. It is sad to see that technical content such
as available in my Photoinstrumentation course sequences
is not probably going to continue to be available to the
students due to perceived “lack of interest”. This course provides students who
elect to participate in them a diverse and unique opportunity to experience
content not available in any other photo program either at RIT or nationally. It
is certinaly not for the faint hearted. But neither are the Marines.
2. Scholarship/Creative Activity
Given your 2009-2010 plan of work, provide a thoughtful review of what you have
achieved relative to what you planned to do in the area of scholarship/creative
activity. Original documentation should not be submitted, but it should be
available upon request. (Examples of such documentation could include summaries
of one or more of the following: published articles, editor's response to
unpublished material, exhibition reviews, reviewer's response to submitted grant
proposals, consulting outcomes.)
I had planned to become more engaged with time lapse
photography and expand on my personal efforts to
produce more polished results than what I had been
able to produce in the past. To this end I
volunteeeed to produce a time lape record of the
Institute Hall being build on the west side of the IT
campus. The project has been underway now for three
months and in spite of several small glitches the
process is going well with over 10,000 frames having
been recorded so far. The camera system is shown
installed in the photograph at left. Work started in
September and I visit the set-up at least twice a week.
I have maintained an acrtive presence with the OSA, the SPIE and OSA. I
participated in several of their conferences and have been in the process of
reorganizing the SPIE Student Chapter of which I am the advisor.
The SPIE Student Chapter membership is primarily from the Micro Electronics
Engineering program and after consultation with SPIE officials in Bellngham we
have come to the conclusion that it is probably best to transfer the Chapter to
the MicroE department.
I look after a global Hispanic communications exchange group (Fotored) whose main
topic of conversation in Spanish relates to photography but which often strays
into such topics as cooking recipes, fine wines, seamanship, etc. Over the Spring
I organized an exhibition of 29 of the list's member's photographs. This exhibit
is slated to travel the world. This is a link to the exhibition I organized for
the members of the mail list (a spanish speaking list devoted mainly to
photography The exhibition itself is comprised of 48 16x20 prints and they are
destined to travel worldwide.
http://www.davidhazy.org/andpph/FotoredExpo2
I continued my activity in the area of exhibiting my photographic work and this
resulted in a one person exhibition at NASA Glenn Research center.
I was accepted and had a photograph entitled “String Vibrations” exhibited at the
Bridges Joint Mathematical Meetings conference and Art in Mathematics exhibition
that took place in New Orleans in January 2011.
My photographs have been published in several textbooks and been included in
several doctoral thesis around the world.
I organizad an exhibition of photographs by Hispanic photographers from around
the world and presented the exhibition in the RIT SPAS 2nd floor hallway display
cases from June 10 -25, 2011.
Prepared and published several books/catalogues through Lulu Press:
SHOTS - a 2011 calendar of high speed ballistic photographs.
FOTORED EXPO II – the catalog of the Fotored member’s exhibition that took place
in SPAS from June 10 -25, 2011 in the 2nd floor north display cases.
ANNUAL SPAS FACULTY EXHIBITION - this is a record of the annual SPAS exhibition
by members of the faculty of the School of Photo Arts and Sciences. This was the
third year that I prepared this catalogue and made sure that a copy was included
in the RIT archives as a permanent record of the accomplishments of SPAS faculty.
On an online gallery of WIRED MAGAZINE photographs by were included in a
collection of The Weird and Beautiful World of Fluid Dynamics anddescribed as
folows: The Weird and Beautiful World of Fluid Dynamics Fluids and gases can move
in strange and mysterious ways that aren’t always apparent to our unaided eyes.
It's only with the use of tracers or dyes, photographic techniques and a bit of
luck, that we can capture fluid dynamics in action. www.wired.com
Got a request for a “string” photo for the cover of a book cover entitled “Senses
of Vibration” and a schlieren photo of goblets with hot and cold water for a book
called the "John Zink Combustion Handbook".
The sneeze photo was requested for a book as follows: Dear Professor Davidhazy, I
am writing an article to be published online for the American Academy for Oral
Systemic Health. Would you grant permission for me to use your high speed
"sneeze" photo to accompany the article? It would be for a one-time use, and
credit would be given to you? Thanks for considering this. Paul J., DDS
This photograph of the sneeze was also included in an independent webpage “6
Things Your Body Does Every Day (That Can Destroy You)” at www.cracked.com
An organization devoted to clean water requested permission to use one of my
ripple photographs and in exchange they sent me a box of chocolates.
Permission letter from England
says: Dear Prof Davidhazy - I am
writing to ask permission to use
one or two of your spectrum images
at
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/exhib
it-spectrum.html on a university
website (yet to be published)
relating to a non-commercial
research study with the usual
corny acronym (PRISM) - I would be
very grateful - With many thanks - Rob Forsyth <rforsyth@newcastle.ac.uk> REPLY
went like this: Rob, no problem ... thank you for asking! this often does not
happen. I am glad to hear that some of those photographs will have a useful
application. take care, Andy
Other events and publications by Andrew Davidhazy in 2010-11
I presented at the Seminar on High Speed Photography
organized by the Visual Instrumentation Corporation
in Lancaster, CA in November 2011 on the topic of
Applied Streak and Strip Analog and Digital Imaging.
This was to a group of about 20 government technical
I was the
of the
2011
Photography
Historical
held at the
October
photographers.
Internet liaison and a member
Program Committee for the
Symposium on the History of
organized by The Photographic
Society of Rochester, NY and
George Eastman House in
2011
My
photographs have been
published
worldwide in various
textbooks
and specialty publications. A
more
complete record will be
available
when the RIT publication on
faculty
scholarship becomes available
to the general public. My photographs are included on the website for the
outreach website Physics To Go (www.physicstogo.org) and is produced at the
American Physical Society. The requests come on a regular (for now) basis from
Edward Lee, lee@aps.org
The number of instances where my photographs have been included (invariably with
mention of my association with RIT) is just too large to list in detail. I should
keep better track of these but I must admit I am not very good at record keeping
of such matters.
I wrote several articles that I made available online on my webpage of articles
about my experiments and personal "investigations" in a variety of areas related
mostly to technical photography. Link to
http://people.rit.edu/andpph/articles.html
PROVING ISAAC NEWTON RIGHT
It is generally known that
velocity from rest depends
photographic way to do it.
OR WRONG WITH BLURRY PHOTOGRAPHS
the acceleration due to gravity has some value and
on it but how to prove it? Here is a relatively simple
Added in September 2011.
FINDING F NUMBERS THAT LET IN MORE LIGHT THAN ANOTHER
This is a "by the numbers" set of instructions on how to determine not only whole
f numbers but also "in between" ones to allow a desired increase in light level
at the image plane. Added in January 2011.
SAMPLE EXAM ON TIME LAPSE AND HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY
This is a sample exam that anyone may copy and use at their discretion covering
introductory topics in shutter calibration, velocity and rotation rate
measurements, electronic flash concepts and introductory time lapse and high
speed imaging matters. Added in January 2011.
BRIEF NOTES ON TIME LAPSE AND HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY
Written as a lecture note review this is an overview of certain aspects of
setting up for time lapse and high speed recording situations. Mostly on Time
Magnification, use of intervalometers and determination of framing rate and
related issues. Added in December 2010.
PERIPHERAL PHOTOGRAPHY
This is a "reprint" of a vintage article that was published in the February 1986
Ceramics Monthly issue of the magazine. It deals with improvised peripheral or
"rollout" photography of pottery and similar objects. This was pre-digital
imaging and linear array solutions but you may still find something of interest
in it. Especially if you are a gadgeteer or experimenter! Added here in November
2010.
http://www.davidhazy.org/andpph/text-edgerton-piddler.html
In addition the article on Proving Newton right or wrong was accepted for
publication by Tech Directions magazine This was accepted in October but has not
yet been published.
For next year I hope I can come uo with more “novel” ideas and applciations to
present online or in print.
So what are some of my other plans for next year?
I plan on devoting myself to teaching my traditional courses and developing more
experiments suitable for incorporation into the curriculum, especially in the
area of special effects. This course was designed primarily as an "analog" or at
least “in camera” based course since special effects can often be easily
accomplished in the "digital" realm.
My publishing output through Lulu.com was a bit less than in past years and I am
planning to complete two or three new titles over the coming year.
I will continue to promote and send my traveling exhibits of technical
photographs to more schools nationwide. This will the fourth year of this
activity and the response from the host schools has always been quite positive.
As far as I know this is the only example of photographic work produced in SPAS
that is being exhibited in high schools and colleges in the US and Canada.
This past year these schools hosted the collection (there were two more but I
lost their email communications):
We have thoroughly enjoyed the photographs at Hill School, and they have sparked
a lot of interesting conversations. Thanks for sharing them with us! Where
should I send them next? Debbie Cockerham, Fine Arts Director, Hill School of
Fort Worth, 4817 Odessa, Fort Worth, TX 76133
They were also exhibited at the College of DuPage where the host was Jeff Curto,
Professor/Coordinator, Photography, College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Boulevard, Glen
Ellyn, IL 60137-6599
And they were also requested by Karen Bray who said: I love these images & would
enjoy playing the game of display & forward the exhibition for the cost of
postage to forward. I greatly admire and appreciate your work at Rochester
Institute of Technology and for the field of photography advancement. Please put
me on a "list" and we will forward the photos after our turn. If you develop a
schedule I'd appreciate knowing the date so I can alert our warehouse receiving
dept.Thank you Andrew. Karen Bray Photo Instructor, Wenatchee High School, 1001
Circle St, Wenatchee WA 98801
I also plan on revisiting the Visual Instrumentation Seminar in California next
November and will continue to assist a faculty member at Arizona State University
where she is implementing an Imaging Technology program to service the military
ranges in that neighborhood.
I will participate in several exhibitions including the WPPD worldwide exhibition
to take place in late April and the Bridges JMM Art in Math exhibition in January
2012.
Who knows what else but if the past is anything to go by, opportunities for
scholarship often are unpredictable but they do come around. I will try to
continue to make the most of them as they come my way.
3. Service
Given your 2003-2004 plan of work, provide a thoughtful review of what you have
achieved relative to what you planned to do in the area of service. Original
documentation should not be submitted, but it should be available upon
request.(Examples of such documentation could include summaries of one or more of
the following: committee chair statements, recruitment calls made, high schools
visited, alumni contacts, development efforts, portfolio days.)
Well, in the past I simply stated the following: For next year I plan on
continuing to participate in high school visits, Science Exploration Days,
presentations at teacher seminars and high school photo conferences, committees,
etc.
There is a art community
center in Seattle by the
name of Coyote. They have an
annual auction style
fundraiser. I have been a
contributor for the last 4
years (with "distinction" of
being the author sending
prints from the farthest
location!) and these are
photographs that left for
them this year.
On the left is an announcement I posted on a teachers mail list offering my
photographs for exhibition – free. The second photo shows the exhibits being
shipped out. The third set of 12 photographs was returned from Dallas and the
teacher there sent me these "environmental" photos (third composite image) as
proof of their use in her class. She asked the students to identify the
photographs from the set of captions that I provided. Another set came back from
Pennsylvania and the teacher there said: Hi Andy! I sent back the photos... I'm
hoping you got them. Just a couple days after I took them down, two of the
science teachers asked where they were... They were using them as references to
curriculum. Very Neat that they had a teaching aspect and an effect on the
school.
I wondered of you might have a different set to send... Different tech photos. I
said I would ask and hoping we could once again borrow some of your great photos.
I made no promises... Thanks Andy
Scott Bohlen
If the opportunity again presents itself I will give a lecture/demonstration in
the High Speed Photography Lab to a group of about visiting Cleveland Community
College students and their faculty.
I organized the return of the Nikon Small World exhibition back to the School of
Photographic Arts and Sciences for the 20th year. This collection of photographs
is generously sent to us by the Nikon Corporation and is available to us for a
whole year and displayed on the walls of the Dr. Ron Francis Photographic
Chemistry lab.
During the course of last year, acting on the basis that I was on sabbatical and
thus not a full-time faculty member, TPSA, which I founded along with Don
McClenny and Howard Slater (students) in 1987 unbeknownst to me came under the
leadership of a second advisor. The club also decided to separate from the SPIE
Student Chapter which I also founded in late 1990s. All this created a situation
that was quite stressful to the students. At this time I do not know if I have
any role to play with the TPSA club but I assume not.
I was selected to be one of three judges for an issue of Photographers Forum
magazine and made selections from over 500 photographs entered in their contest.
Development efforts:
I am a member and Fellow of the International Society for Optical Engineering's
Edgerton Award Committee as well as the overall Awards Committee. I am the
Internet liaison for The Photographic Historical Society and maintain for them an
Internet presence off my website. I will be helping them transition (move) this
website that has been provided to them as a community service for a number of
years to an external site.
Alumni Contacts: I plan to curtail my activities in regard to communications with
alumni of the IPT program as there are more informed and capable faculty to
handle such things.
My plan of work for next year: For next year I plan on continuing to participate
in presentations at meetings of professional organizations but probably not at
the level I was able to reach this past year.
4. Other
If your 2009-2010 plan of work, called for any special activity outside of the
above three categories, please provide an appropriate review of the evidence that
such plans have been achieved.
Well, I am not sure if this falls under "other" or what ... these items are
simply additional activities accomplished or in which I was significantly
involved. Most of these activities contribute, I hope, to overall school
recruitment and to keeping the image of the School of Photographic Arts and
Sciences as a center for top-notch photographic education in the minds of the
local and the larger photo/imaging community. (I used the preceding paragraph
verbatim from an older report - FYI)
In the past I stated: For next year my plan is continue to continue to stay
active on the web with the PhotoForum and Fotored mail lists and to devote less
time to the PhotoHist list. I will be active again next year as the Internet
Liaison of The Photographic Historical Society. In terms of the other
communications initiatives I plan on remaining active in terms of presentations
and visitations to local and regional high school and colleges.
I plan on discontinuing the Photographic History (PhotoHist) mail list which I
started in the late 1990s as the competition from the Yahoo! PhotoHistory group
is just too overwhelming to keep this small list alive.
For next year my plan is continue to continue to stay active
on the web with the PhotoForum and Fotored mail lists
I offered to send sets of my Phoenix Process figure
postcards to anyone who asked for them. This is a record of
the latest mailing to people requesting these. I could not
photograph the envelopes going out this time because I had
already handed them to the PO clerk and she would not return
them for a photo! So this is the PO receipt! Destination to
27 recipients including New Zealand and Ireland plus many US states! And there
were two additional mailings albeit smaller in number before and after this set
was sent out.
I have a couple of small exhibitions of my technical
photographs on exhibit around RIT, one in a conference
room in the College of Science and the other one in
the B&L building. I plan to continue to install new
images there during the coming year.
I will continue my long-term association with Prof.
William Allen, working with him on a collaborative
project that is an INTERNATIONAL DIRECTORY OF
PHOTOGRAPHY HISTORIANS associated with the History of Photography Group.
I plan on giving a lecture/demo at Lafayette University in Lafayette, PA during
the Spring quarter of 2011-21 at the invitation of Jenn Stroud Rossmann, Ph.D.,
professor of fluid mechanics. Tis was scheduled for this past Fall but scheduling
conflicts interfered.
I will continue to manage the PhotoForum mail list on the Internet (going on the
18th year for the list and the 16th for the gallery) and besides dealing with day
to day issues related to smooth operation of the list itself, This list serves
over 500 photographers worldwide. I am "proud" to say that I have for one more
year installed a brand new gallery of list member's images on the web every
Saturday morning of the year. I have been doing this actually since 1996 without
anyone here in SPAS really knowing anything about it.
I also have continued to look after the Fotored mail list. On Fotored the
language used is Spanish and it serves about 350 Hispanic individuals worldwide.
I entered several exhibition and contest opportunities that
came along during the past year. Notably the Royal Photo
Society’s scientific photography exhibition and the Optical
Society of America photography contest. I did not fare well in
either event. But I will keep trying.
I will continue to engage in professional consulting
activities, public presentation, etc. as in the past.
Again, I want to acknowledge that the list of contributions mentioned above would
not have been possible without the support of the BFA side of SPAS and in
particular that of Dr. Therese Mulligan. I appreciate the opportunity to be of
service in other ways that is made available to me by my colleagues near and far.
Thank you.
This self evaluation and your proposed plan of work for December 1, 2010 to
November 30, 2011 is due to the SPAS Administrative Chair on January 10, 2012