Obsolete Instrumentation at Universities

American universities at risk.

In the spring of 1996, I was the Rolf Sammet Guest Professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main in Germany. One afternoon, I accompanied one of the chemistry department s professors to a part of the city of Frankfurt called Sachsenhausen to enjoy Ebbelwoi, a German hard cider. As we sat in the sun, relaxing, the conversation turned to a comparison between life in Americ...

Cognition at the Universities of

The Transregional Collaborative Research Center SFB/TR 8 Spatial Cognition was established by the German Science Foundation (DFG) at the Universities of Bremen and Freiburg in January 2003. 13 Research projects pursue interdisciplinary research on intelligent spatial information processing. This article introduces the research field of spatial cognition and reports on aspects from cognitive psy...

Virtual Laboratories at Technical Universities

The paper discuss a problem of a usage of virtual laboratories in teaching process at technical universities. The analysis of advantages and disadvantages of simulated laboratories and laboratories with an distant access is presented. Also different ways of implementing simulated virtual laboratories are given. Moreover, the problem of the supporting virtual laboratories by multimedia lessons a...

Heterodyne Instrumentation at the CSO

The Caltech Submillimeter observatory (CSO) is one of the World’s premier submillimeter telescopes. It consists of a 10.4 meter diameter Leighton radio dish situated in a compact dome near the summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii. The telescope has been operating under a contract from the National Science Foundation on a regular basis since 1988. For the first time heterodyne Superconducting-Insulating-...

Transforming Science Education at Large Research Universities