Syllabus and NOTES for Cooperative Glass Class
Class Meeting Times
M, W 5:00-6:30pm EST
URL http://breeze.clemson.edu/vgc/
Access: Sign in with guest access and provide your name. You will appear as an attendee
in the class list that will show on the left hand pod on the Breeze site
YOU will NEED to connect and access class info:
- your laptop or a smart classroom
- CLEMSON ID to be able to access Blackboard
All lectures will be recorded and available on Blackboard, so you will be able to access
outside of classroom meeting time.
Instructors
Dr. Alex Clare, Alfred University
Dr. Himanshu Jain, Lehigh University
Dr. Mario Affatigato, Coe College
Dr. Steve Martin, Iowa State University
Dr. John Kieffer, University of Michigan
Dr. Eric Skaar, Clemson University
Dr. Laeticia Petit, Clemson University
Dr. Kathleen Richardson, Clemson University
These instructors will be posting profiles on Blackboard so you know when and how to
contact them.
Blackboard access
Your local instructor is providing us your info and you will be issued a CLEMSON ID
which will allow you to log into Blackboard to receive info, updates and announcements
related to the class
This site will be established this weekend once we receive all student info from the various
Universities.
We will be establishing a one pager profiles for each faculty member with their contact info
for your use.
You can access Blackboard FAQ on the site with questions you have that your home
instructor cannot answer. We can also access the Blackboard manual should you need that.
Course Schedule
This file has been uploaded onto the BREEZE site.
Virtual Classroom Protocol
Each professor, like you, is experiencing this distant to many locations instructions for the
first time. Hence, you’ll need to bear with us as well.
Each professor will define how they want to communicate with YOU during the class.
They will ask you to use the CHAT pod on the bottom of your screen to text in messages or
questions or answers. At this point, we are evaluating if we need to have voice access
available at the end of each lecture. In our practice runs, we found that the multiple
universities discussion is really hard to coordinate. However, you will be able to enter
questions AFTER lecture or at any time, through the CHAT pod.
Each faculty member or team teaching a specific course module will be defining and
assigning individual homework/quiz/project assignments related to their topic. You will be
given due dates and form of this submission, along with how you will submit it
(electronically to Blackboard) by the instructor.
Class Grade Determination
Final grades will be determined by your participation in class and your completion of work
associated with the various course modules. This info and your grades will be tabulated on
a master course grade list on Blackboard, where you can see your grades for each module.
Each module will have an assignment of some form associated with it, that will count 10%
of your grade. A final group project will be assigned for your final exam.
Your final grade will be submitted to your home institution by your local instructor.
individual assignments per topic (70%)
(assessment tool TBD for each topic shown = 7 x 10% of final grade)
- review of glass transition, glass formation, basics on structure (Professor Martin,
Iowa State Univ.)
- Vibrational spectroscopy [IR, Raman] (Prof. Richardson/Dr. Petit, Clemson, Dr.
Affatigato, Coe College)
- NMR Spectroscopy (Professor Martin, ISU)
- Electronic Spectoscopy (Professor Jain, Lehigh)
- Scattering Studies [Neutron and XRay Scattering] (Professor Clare, Alfred)
- Modeling and Simulation (Professor Kieffer, Univ. Michigan)
- Effect of glass formation method on structure [thin films, fibers, implanted,
irradiated glasses] (Professors Martin, Richardson, Jain)
final project (30%)
- you will be provided with an “unknown” that you will be asked to use the tools of
structural characterization to identify. Multi-university teams will be assigned to work
on this part of the project.