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The AAPT Undergraduate Curriculum Task Force
Ernie Behringer
AAPT RepresentativeEastern Michigan University
SUPC Next Steps Session: 6:15 PM Saturday, June 7, 2014
Genesis, Work, and Next Steps
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AAPT UCTF: Genesis
• Paradigms! (2001)
• SPIN-UP (2003)
• Guidelines for Self-Study…UG (2005)
• Graduate Education Report (2006)
But still no UG curriculum recommendations from the community!
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AAPT UCTF: Genesis
• 2007: Proposal to AAPT CPUE: No
• 2007/8: Computation
• 2009: Vision&Change
• 2011: CPUE: Yes
• 2012: Established– 18 members– APS & AIP reps– Many Area Committees
Don’t touch the third rail!
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AAPT UCTF: Work
• 2012/2013– Identified data essential for reasonably
classifying/comparing programs and departments (preliminary, for data pull)
– Began looking at cross-cutting areas• Lab (AAPT Committee on Laboratories)
– UCTF Members Kozminski and Dietz; Zwickl
• Undergraduate Research– CUR
2013 NRC Report: Adapting to a Changing World
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AAPT UCTF: Work
• 2013/2014– Continued looking at cross-cutting areas
• Lab (AAPT Committee on Laboratories)• Undergraduate Research (APS 2014)• Computation
– Feedback on preliminary draft recommendations received from PICUP (Caballero et al.) and the UCTF
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AAPT UCTF: Next Steps
• Remainder of 2014– Revise computation recommendations by
Summer Meeting– Inform and support the Joint Task Force on
Undergraduate Physics Programs (J-TUPP)• Co-Chair: Paula Heron
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AAPT UCTF: Next Steps
• Remainder of 2014– Revise computation recommendations by
Summer Meeting– Inform and support the Joint Task Force on
Undergraduate Physics Programs (J-TUPP)• Co-Chair: Paula Heron