SPIN-UP Regional Workshops: Building Undergraduate Physics Programs for the 21 st Century Robert C. Hilborn University of Texas at Dallas Support from American Association of Physics Teachers, American Physical Society American Institute of Physics

The Workshop Series Four regional workshops: Marquette North Carolina State Rutgers Cal Poly San Luis Obispo About 20 participating departments per workshop

Project Management Bob Hilborn and Warren Hein, PIs Ruth Howes, Project Director Karen Johnston, external evaluator Steering Committee

Goals and Objectives Goal: enhance undergraduate physics learning for both majors and non- majors Project Objective: Have 80 physics departments in the U.S. implement significant improvements in their undergraduate programs. Long-term Objective: Have 50% of physics departments do the same.

Goals for this Workshop Goal: document changes and challenges in undergraduate physics at major Research-I Universities (Doctoral/research universities- extensive) Product: Report on the current state and future plans of undergraduate physics Dissemination: Send report to all physics departments in US and to federal and private funding agencies

Our Schedule – Friday, June 4 5:00 pmWelcoming Remarks 5:15 Bob Hilborn “Project Overview and the SPIN-UP Message” 5:45Questions and Discussion 6:00 pmBrief Reports I Chicago, Cornell, Georgia Tech 7:00 pmReception with posters 7:30 pmDinner 8:30 pmBrief Reports II Harvard, Illinois, Michigan

Our Schedule - Saturday, June 5 8:00 amBreakfast 8:30 amCase Study 1: MIT 9:00 amCase Study 2: Rutgers 9:30 amBreak 10:00 amDiversity and Undergraduate Physics in the 21 st Century – Jim Stith 10:45 amCase Study 3: University of Colorado - Boulder 11:15 amBrief Reports III Michigan State, Penn State, Princeton 12:15 Lunch 1:00 pmBreakout Session A – new directions in undergraduate physics

Our Schedule - Saturday, June 5 2:00 pmRole of Physics Education Research in Enhancing Undergraduate Physics Programs – Eugenia Etkina 2:45 pmBreak 3:30 PMBreakout Session B – introductory physics for engineering and life science students 4:30 pm Brief Reports IV Purdue, Stanford, Toledo 5:30 pmFree time 6:00 pm Informal Reception 6:30 pm Dinner 7:30 pm Talk: Anthony Johnson - UMBC

Our Schedule - Sunday, June 6 8:00 amBreakfast 8:45 am Breakout Session C – Do our undergraduate programs prepare our students for their careers? 9:30 am Brief Reports V Virginia, Yale 10:15 am Break 10:30 am Defining the key challenges facing undergraduate physics over the next ten years: What needs to be done 11:15 am Wrap Up and Evaluation - Bob Hilborn and Karen Johnston