Integrating Computation Into the Undergraduate Physics Curriculum by Marcos Caballero (Hardback)

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Published:
01 Oct 2025
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Hardback
Dimensions:
254x178mm
Weight:
0.000kgs
In this edited book, leading authors will share their work on integrating computation into undergraduate physics courses. The book will collect the best integration efforts across the world at a variety of scales to showcase and contextualize the work that is taking place.Authors will share the motivations for their efforts to integrate computation into physics courses, how the changes were discussed and implemented, including how goals were developed, what curricular and pedagogical efforts were used, and the reaction of students and faculty to the work. Authors will discuss how their courses are run and supported along with sample curricular materials, including formative and summative assessments. Finally, authors will outline what challenges they encountered and what challenges remain.

In this edited book, leading authors will share their work on integrating computation into undergraduate physics courses. The book will collect the best integration efforts across the world at a variety of scales to showcase and contextualize the work that is taking place.

Authors will share the motivations for their efforts to integrate computation into physics courses, how the changes were discussed and implemented, including how goals were developed, what curricular and pedagogical efforts were used, and the reaction of students and faculty to the work. Authors will discuss how their courses are run and supported along with sample curricular materials, including formative and summative assessments. Finally, authors will outline what challenges they encountered and what challenges remain.

About the Author: Dr Marcos (Danny) Caballero is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy and the Department of Computational Mathematics, Science and Engineering at Michigan State University. He holds the Lappan-Phillips Chair of Physics Education, co-directs the Physics Education Research Lab, serves as a principal investigator for the Learning Machines Lab, conducts research as part of the newly-founded Computational Education Research Lab, and holds an appointment as research faculty at the University of Oslo's Center for Computing in Science Education.Danny earned his B.S. in physics from the University of Texas at Austin in 2004. He helped found the Georgia Tech Physics Education Research group in 2007 and earned the first physics education focused Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 2011. He conducts research from the high school to the upper-division and is particularly interested in how students learn through their use of tools such as mathematics and computing. His work employs cognitive and sociocultural theories of learning and aims to blend these perspectives to enhance physics and computational science instruction at all levels. His projects range from the fine-grained (e.g., how students engage with particular computational ideas) to the course-scale (e.g., what kind of computing students are able to do after instruction) to the very broad (e.g., how departments value computation).

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