06/25/2020, 12:00 PM
Developing a Communication Plan for Online Students
In this webinar, you will find out how to best communicate with your students in the online environment. You will learn about effective pedagogical methods and technology tools that can be used . . . throughout your course to establish your online presence, communicate effectively with your students, and enhance the learner experience. By the end of the webinar, you should be able to identify specific ways that you will communicate with your students.
Recording
06/24/2020, 7:00 PM
Giving Student Feedback: What Works and How to Do It
Constructive feedback is transformative for students in an online course. Instructor feedback not only supports student learning but also helps to decrease isolation in an online learning environment. . . . In this workshop, you will learn about a framework for constructive feedback and strategies to immediately apply in your course. You will create feedback based on the framework and walk away with a plan to incorporate constructive feedback in your own course.
Recording
06/23/2020, 7:00 PM
Top 4 Time Saving Library Services You Should Be Using
Join your librarians to explore:
(1) Library Resources for EP Faculty – As a faculty member, what can you access and how? Get guidance and learn what resources are available to make your teaching . . . easier and how to access the many resources for engineering.
(2) Ereserves Service – – Post your supplemental articles, selected chapters from books, multimedia resources. Reserves takes care of any copyright concerns.
(3) Research Skills Boot Camp – If students are doing research papers, help students to do better research and you will get better papers. Improve skills in a variety of ways, assign our Research Skills Blackboard module, request an online orientation to library resources, request an online workshop to cover a specific skill; tell students to make appointments for individual help, embed your librarian in your class to answer questions at point of need.
(4) Ask Your Librarian – Have questions – reach out and ask a librarian. We can save you time by providing the shortcut or guidance you need to find what you are seeking. Also, learn about the Library’s channel in your Teams site.
Recording
06/18/2020, 12:00 PM
Best Practices for Interaction in an Online Course
In the face-to-face environment, student-to-student, student-faculty, and student-content interactions occur synchronously and often develop organically. The challenge with online education is how to . . . create opportunities for interaction that yield effective and rich learning experiences.
In this workshop, you will learn about the top best practices in interaction in an online course as cited in the research. You will discover technology tools that support these interactions and hear about case studies from engineering courses exemplifying the best practices.
Recording
06/17/2020, 12:00 PM
Top 4 Time Saving Library Services You Should Be Using
Join your librarians to explore:
(1) Library Resources for EP Faculty – As a faculty member, what can you access and how? Get guidance and learn what resources are available to make your teaching . . . easier and how to access the many resources for engineering.
(2) Ereserves Service – – Post your supplemental articles, selected chapters from books, multimedia resources. Reserves takes care of any copyright concerns.
(3) Research Skills Boot Camp – If students are doing research papers, help students to do better research and you will get better papers. Improve skills in a variety of ways, assign our Research Skills Blackboard module, request an online orientation to library resources, request an online workshop to cover a specific skill; tell students to make appointments for individual help, embed your librarian in your class to answer questions at point of need.
(4) Ask Your Librarian – Have questions – reach out and ask a librarian. We can save you time by providing the shortcut or guidance you need to find what you are seeking. Also, learn about the Library’s channel in your Teams site.
Recording
06/16/2020, 12:00 PM
Giving Student Feedback: What Works and How to Do It
Constructive feedback is transformative for students in an online course. Instructor feedback not only supports student learning but also helps to decrease isolation in an online learning environment. . . . In this workshop, you will learn about a framework for constructive feedback and strategies to immediately apply in your course. You will create feedback based on the framework and walk away with a plan to incorporate constructive feedback in your own course.
Recording
06/12/2020, 2:00 PM
Lab-in-a Box: Instruments for Remote Operation
Workshop Description In this webinar, Dr. John Mansfield, former Director of Education and Engagement for the Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (MC)2, a University-wide user facility for . . . the structural and chemical analysis of materials at nanometer length scales, and Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, will lead a discussion on using lab-based instruments for remote operation. Attendees will also get the chance to engage in a Q and A.
John F. Mansfield
Retired from
Director of Education and Engagement for the Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (MC)2
Associate Research Scientist in Materials Science and Engineering
University of Michigan
On March 20th, 2018, John Mansfield retired from his dual appointment position as Director of Education and Engagement for the Michigan Center for Materials Characterization (MC)2, a University-wide user facility for the structural and chemical analysis of materials at nanometer length scales, and Associate Research Scientist in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan,.
Mansfield received his B.Sc. in Chemical Physics at the University of Bristol, Bristol, UK in 1979. He continued his studies at Bristol receiving his M.Sc. in the Physics of Materials in 1980 and his Ph.D. in Physics in 1983. He was a post-doctoral researcher at Argonne National Laboratory between 1984 and 1986 and a visiting scientist at the Microelectronics Center of North Carolina from 1986 to 1987. In 1987, Mansfield joined the faculty of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering and became manager of the North Campus Electron Microbeam Analysis Laboratory (EMAL). He was an Assistant and then Associate Research Scientist in the Department for the next 27 years. His primary responsibility during that time was serving as the manager Manager and Associate Director of the laboratories and offices of the North Campus EMAL.
EMAL was renamed (to (MC)2) in 2015 and eighteen months later, after he successfully managed and supervised the relocation of all of the laboratory equipment, Mansfield became the Director of Education and Engagement for the new facility.
Since his arrival at the University of Michigan, Mansfield has been committed to the development of the North Campus EMAL into a world class state-of-the-art characterization facility that serves both the entire campus community, as well as a wide range of local industries and sister academic institutions in southeastern Michigan, northern Ohio and southwestern Ontario. Mansfield served as the primary resource and resident expert for both external and internal customers.
Under Mansfield’s guidance, the North Campus EMAL facility grew from a small transmission electron microscope facility with approximately two dozen users, predominantly from the Departments of Materials Science and Engineering and Chemical Engineering, to a nanoscale characterization laboratory, electron microscope and surface analysis facility that serves the majority of the departments in the College of Engineering and over a dozen other departments across the entire campus of the University.
As Principal Investigator and Co-Principal Investigator, leading teams of up to 30 faculty, Mansfield was responsible for the proposals that funded the majority of the eight new instruments (four transmission electron microscopes, two focused ion beam systems, a scanning electron microscope and a x-ray photoelectron spectrometer) that have been acquired as the result of successful National Science Foundation Major Research Instrumentation Programs. There are now over 400 registered users of the facility and the laboratory supports faculty research programs that are worth over $100M.
In order to install a new advanced, double Cs-corrected scanning transmission electron microscope into the laboratory, the design and construction of over 14,500 square feet of low-field and low-vibration space in the University’s North Campus Research Complex was managed by Mansfield throughout 2013. Under Mansfield’s supervisor and guidance, the facility’s instruments were moved into the new facility, in stages, beginning in early 2014 and by early in 2015 the relocation of the laboratory was completed. The facility is now world-renowned and considered one of the premier such facilities by its peers. The move of the laboratory coincided with its renaming to better reflect the role of the facility.
As the facility grew in instrumentation and research activities, Mansfield’s expertise grew as well. He specializes in nanostructural and nanochemical analysis of materials via transmission electron microscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, X-ray energy dispersive spectroscopy, electron energy-loss spectroscopy and electron diffraction.
His role of Director of Education and Engagement in the new facility meant that he could focus on the the creation and teaching of specialized introductory seminars on most of the techniques that are available in the facility. The subjects of the seminars, which were designed as intensive two hour presentations to teach new users of the facility the fundamental details of the techniques and instrumentation that they would be using in the facility. At the time of his retirement Mansfield had designed and assembled 12 seminars. The subjects of these seminars included: Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Focused ion beam nano-analysis and fabrication (FIB), X-ray energy dispersive spectrometry (XEDS) in the SEM, XEDS in the TEM, Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) in the TEM, Electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD), Basic electron diffraction in the TEM, Intermediate electron diffraction in the TEM, Convergent beam electron diffraction in the TEM (CBED), Scanned Probe Microscopy (SPM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) These seminars are mandatory for all new users of the instrumentation. During the time that they were offered Mansfield taught 720 students in these seminars.
Another of Mansfield’d interests was the remote control and operation of the microscopes in the characterization center for teaching and remote research. He first controlled a Philips XL30 Scanning Electron Microscope across the network in 1995. At that time a large assemblage of extra equipment was necessary to enable the effective transmission and reception of the video signal to the remote location. He did a number of Lehigh Microscopy School demonstrations of remote operation and in 1999 the advances in technology meant that the remote operation was easily incorporated into the laboratory sessions for the Microscopy School. Since then the remote operation of scanning electron microscopes, focused ion beam workstations and electron probe microanalyzers has become a routine way of presenting labs at the Microscopy School in the classrooms to large groups of students in relative comfort (rather than having them crammed into the microscope laboratories!).
Another major activity in which Mansfield was engaged as Director of Education and Engagement was outreach in to local K12 schools. After discussion with the Director of Outreach for Hitachi High Technologies, Robert Gordon, Mansfield was loaned a Hitachi TM3030+ tabletop scanning electron microscope and Oxford Aztec silicon drift detector (SDD) based XEDS system that was used in a wide variety of outreach activities to elementary through high schools in the area and at science fairs and museums.
Recording
05/28/2020, 7:00 PM
Microsoft Teams – Beyond the Basics
This workshop provides a look at advanced features in Microsoft Teams that are useful for managing your course and interacting with students. We discuss why these features and tasks are useful and how . . . to perform them. After seeing a demonstration of each task, participants will each select two tasks to complete and receive support as they perform them. The session concludes with a Q&A session.
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