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Meeting ID: 937 2623 1106
Passcode: 705990

Getting engaged in the process of an authentic discovery can be transformative for undergraduate students unsure about becoming a scientist. Modern frontline research and discoveries increasingly need an interdisciplinary approach usually not offered in department-based courses. To develop an innovative mindset students often need a roadmap involving development of critical thinking abilities, hands-on active learning skills, followed by intense curiosity driven capstone research. In this seminar we will discuss a holistic student development model that starts in the classrooms using custom made cartoon clicker questions to enhance student engagement and real time feedback, followed by guided-discovery based labs and finally immersive modular interdisciplinary research projects. We will also discuss some of the recent discoveries and achievements made by Das research group undergraduate students at UMES including plasma generation using a kitchen microwave oven, to the study of dynamics of rotating solid bodies in zero gravity.