IT and EOT Leadership Teams Ellen Rathje (Univ of Texas) Sean Brophy (Purdue Univ) Thalia Anagnos (SJ State Univ)

 Inform the NEES community about planned IT/EOT developments  Engage and involve the NEES community in the development process  Obtain feedback on our plans This Webinar represents the first in a series aimed at engaging the NEES community

IT expertiseEarthquake Engineers Rudi Eigenmann (Purdue)Ellen Rathje (UTexas) Tom Hacker (Purdue)Shirley Dyke (Purdue) Saurabh Bagchi (Purdue)Santiago Pujol (Purdue) Ayhan Irfanoglu (Purdue) Dawn Weisman- IT Director Greg Rodgers - Sr Software Eng Brian Rohler - Sr Software Eng NEEScomm IT Staff Ann-Christine Catlin – Hub Tech, Data HUB development staff Strategic Leadership Operations Equipment Site IT Data Sub Comm (Dyke) RAAS (Browning) CI Sub Comm of PAC (Fortes) User’s Forum (van de Lindt) NEES Community

o Best known through nanoHUB.org o Serving 90,000 in highly diverse field of nanotechnology o Proven community building o Underlying platform HUBzero tm o 9 hubs exist, 11 in development, 6 proposed CTSIhub cceHub thermalHUB cceHUB HUBzero TM

Execute remote software tools as if they were here View NEES project X N3DV launches on project X data N3DV screen is inserted in User’s web browser

NEEShub is not a new CI that replaces what exists today Current tools/ functionalities will still be available to users NEEShub Integrates Existing NEES Assets NEES Data NEES Data N3DV RDV FlexTPS OpenSees N3DV RDV Existing Assets: Tools and data end of Y1

 NEEShub will not replace what exists today ◦ Current tools/ functionalities will still be available to users  IT tools developed by: ◦ NEEScomm IT staff ◦ NEES community ◦ Outside community NEEShub Facilitates IT Development NEES Data NEES Data N3DV RDV FlexTPS OpenSees N3DV RDV Existing Assets: Tools and data end of Y1 New IT tools: Project Display, Data Viewer, NEES Academy New developments: based on identified IT shortcomings

 Current NEES IT tools will be available  New tools developed by NEEScomm: o Project Warehouse (Project Display, inDEED Data Viewer) o Upload and Curation Tools o OpenSEES running on NEEShub o Site information, availability, and calendar o NEES Academy : EOT resources Target Date: July 31, 2010

 Evolving NEEScentral interface o More navigable o Searchable o Easier to rapidly view/interpret data  Interface includes: o Project Display o inDEED Data Viewer o Plans to interface with other viewers (e.g., RDV, 3DDV, N3DV) Project Warehouse

Source: PreNEESR T-walls project PI: Cathy French

Click on data to launch inDEED

 Upload data  Will allow users to:

 Upload vs. authoring  Upload tool: UT’s SingleShot ◦ Working with Site IT managers to expand to all project types  Future improvements to SingleShot ◦ Upload/transfer in the background ◦ Incremental upload

 Curation has been a bottleneck o A significant backlog exists o Data curator requires significant time to curate each project o Developing tools to speed up/improve curation within the current framework  Future: curation-at-the-source (Yr 2/3)

 Power of HUB technology o Remote simulation o Integration with data  OpenSEES will be installed on NEEShub o Future: improved user interface, documentation, and integrated with database tools  Other tools from community will be available through the NEEShub

Source: NEES-CABER project PI: David Sanders

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 Transition to Purdue complete! ◦ March 31, 2010  Prototype schedule (targets) ◦ Week of April 12 ◦ Week of May 24 ◦ Week of July 5  NEEShub released to public ◦ July 31, 2010

Thalia Anagnos, Co-PI (San José State) Sean Brophy (Purdue) Barbara Cooper- EOT Coordinator Pending – Instructional Designer Allegra East – Communications Specialist Jared West – Technology Specialist Jason Lambert – Software Engineer Thalia Anagnos, Co-PI (San José State) Sean Brophy (Purdue) Barbara Cooper- EOT Coordinator Pending – Instructional Designer Allegra East – Communications Specialist Jared West – Technology Specialist Jason Lambert – Software Engineer Strategic Leadership Operations

 NEESR Proposals ◦ Effective and widely disseminated “Broader Impacts”  Researchers/Instructors ◦ Mentor/train graduate students for research ◦ Learn to use site tools and equipment ◦ Connect research with education ◦ Disseminate educational resources and research ◦ Integrate simulations and educational tools with courses ◦ Teach graduate and undergraduate course with new instructional methods ◦ Assess student learning  NEESR Proposals ◦ Effective and widely disseminated “Broader Impacts”  Researchers/Instructors ◦ Mentor/train graduate students for research ◦ Learn to use site tools and equipment ◦ Connect research with education ◦ Disseminate educational resources and research ◦ Integrate simulations and educational tools with courses ◦ Teach graduate and undergraduate course with new instructional methods ◦ Assess student learning NEES Community EOT Needs

How can NEEScomm Help?  Partner with you to… ◦ Disseminate effective learning experiences you have developed ◦ Develop and test educational innovations ◦ Prioritize your application and content needs  Training  Course instruction  Others ◦ Identify potential resources – existing or that need to be developed  Videos, animation, interactive simulation (HUB tools)  Partner with you to… ◦ Disseminate effective learning experiences you have developed ◦ Develop and test educational innovations ◦ Prioritize your application and content needs  Training  Course instruction  Others ◦ Identify potential resources – existing or that need to be developed  Videos, animation, interactive simulation (HUB tools)

Video (Youtube channel) Online simulation… Telepresence Video Data visualization tools Webinar and video lectures Wiki, blog…collaboration Image Gallery Leverage Growing Number of Resources

Teaching with simulations Activities for teaching design Lecture on … Principles of how people learn… Project ideas for teaching concepts… Using research data in learning activities EOT Site Information NEES Academy

training students to instrument specimens training students to run experiments designing experiments conducting research at specific sites lectures Series… writing effective proposals EOT Site Information NEES Academy

What is earthquake engineering? Basic instrumentation 101? Basics of … Introduction to computational modeling Introduction hybrid testing… Designing effective experiments at site…

 When does failure occur under different loading conditions?  What are the indicators of pending failure seen in the data?  When does failure occur under different loading conditions?  What are the indicators of pending failure seen in the data? Example 1: Learning activities with data, video and simulations

 Wrap “context” around experimental video to teach fundamental concepts, disseminate research findings Learning Objectives Experiment Background Relevant Theory Potential Student Assignments Potential Assessments Learning Objectives Experiment Background Relevant Theory Potential Student Assignments Potential Assessments Example 2: Modules with Embedded Experimental Video

Students use NEES data to explore the limits of and assumptions underlying analytical models Research data and simulations for learning Example 3: Data and Simulation for Challenge-based Learning

Source: NEES-CABER project PI: David Sanders Example 4: Integrate NEEShub tools into educational modules  Use selected datasets to illustrate important concepts.  Student compare predicted and actual behavior

Example 5: Expanding the “Reach” of Outreach  Use NEEShub tools for remote participation in outreach activities  Share activities and best practices in NEES Academy  Use NEEShub tools for remote participation in outreach activities  Share activities and best practices in NEES Academy

 Send questions to IT and EOT team at  Questions and responses posted at  We need you! ◦ Volunteer to test prototypes during development.  IT Director Dawn Weisman ◦ Contribute ideas and needs for EOT/NEES Academy  EOT Director Barbara Cooper