Preamble
I feel a lucky person because in my life I have been and I am surrounded by great teachers, inspiring people, those that make you love the topic that you will never forget. However, I have also had my dose of crappy teachers, mean and authoritarian, those that makes you hate the topic and question yourself. I try to be the former and not always it is easy. My muse in teaching is Prof. Walter Lewin (MIT), for sure many of you are familiar with him. In my classes I try to explain geophysical concepts through hands on activities. I foster interaction and confrontation between teacher and student as well as among students.
I feel a lucky person because in my life I have been and I am surrounded by great teachers, inspiring people, those that make you love the topic that you will never forget. However, I have also had my dose of crappy teachers, mean and authoritarian, those that makes you hate the topic and question yourself. I try to be the former and not always it is easy. My muse in teaching is Prof. Walter Lewin (MIT), for sure many of you are familiar with him. In my classes I try to explain geophysical concepts through hands on activities. I foster interaction and confrontation between teacher and student as well as among students.
Measuring systems and data analysis in the geosciences (SEEGEO) (Undergraduate level)
In 2019 I was asked to develop a new course to teach the basics of data analysis using Python and build the foundation to understand how measuring instruments work. For this reason I decided to develop a very interactive courses where, after some lessons on basic programming concepts, we use Arduino to implement our own instruments, record data and analyze to understand physical phenomena around us.
Throughout the course we build several systems to understand:
We use real time-series collected in the field to experience real case data handling
We often are in the laboratory and put our hands on a newly developed rock mechanics machine.
We collect data using an experimental apparatus and analyze the rexulting data to draw scientific conclusions.
Throughout the course we build several systems to understand:
- what is a Digital Acquisition System (DAQ)
- Introduction to signal processing
- Temperature measurements
- Force measurements
- Stress measurements
- Displacement measurements
- LVDT/DCDT
- GPS
- Geophones and Accelerometers
- LIDAR
We use real time-series collected in the field to experience real case data handling
We often are in the laboratory and put our hands on a newly developed rock mechanics machine.
We collect data using an experimental apparatus and analyze the rexulting data to draw scientific conclusions.