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AN: ED41B-1171    [PDF]
TI: Undergraduate Research - Analyzing Data Sets: Global Positioning System (GPS) and Modeling the 1994 Northridge Earthquake
AU: * Simila, G
EM: gsimila@csun.edu
AF: Department of Geological Sciences, CSUN 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330
AU: Shubin, C
EM: carol.shubin@csun.edu
AF: Department of Mathematics, CSUN 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330
AU: Horn, W
EM: werner.horn@csun.edu
AF: Department of Mathematics, CSUN 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330
AB: Our undergraduate research program (2000-2003), funded by NASA, consisted of four short courses on the analysis of selected data sets from GPS, solar physics, orbital mechanics, and proteomics. During the program, approximately 80 students were recruited from science, math, engineering, and technology disciplines. This short course introduced students to GPS and earthquake data analysis with additional presentations by scientists from JPL. Additional lectures involved discussions of the wave equation, Fourier analysis, statistical techniques, and computer applications of Excel and Matlab. Each student modeled the observed GPS displacements produced by the 1994 Northridge earthquake and presented an oral report. An additional component of the program involved students as research assistants engaged in a variety of projects at CSUN and JPL. Each short course continued the following semester with weekly research lectures.
DE: 6605 Education
SC: Education and Human Resources [ED]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting