Osman Yasar is an endowed professor and director of the CMST Institute at The College at Brockport, SUNY. He established the first undergraduate degree program in computational science in the United States and developed a computational pedagogical content knowledge (CPACK) framework for teacher professional development. His research interests include engineering and science education, computational pedagogy, computational theory of mind, fluid and particle dynamics, engine ignition modeling, and parallel computing. Yasar has a PhD in engineering physics and MS degrees in computer science and nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He also has BS and MS degrees in physics from Hacettepe University-Ankara. He co-founded a national supercomputer center and a doctoral program in computational science and engineering at Istanbul Technical University. Ibrahim Halil Yeter, Texas Tech UniversityIbrahim H. Yeter is currently a PhD candidate in the Curriculum and Instruction program at the College of Education, and at the same time, he is pursuing his Master's degree in Petroleum Engineering at Texas Tech University. He is highly interested in conducting research within the Engineering Education framework. Mr. Yeter plans to graduate in December 2016 with both degrees and is looking forward to securing a teaching position within a research university and continuing his in-depth research on Engineering Education.He is one of two scholarships awarded by NARST (National Association for Research in Science Teaching) to attend the ESERA (European Science Education Research Association) summer research conference inČeské Budějovice, Czech Republic in August 2016. In addition, he has been named as one of 14 Jhumki Basu Scholars by the NARST's Equity and Ethics Committee in 2014. He is the first and only individual from his native country and Texas Tech University to have received this prestigious award. Furthermore, he was a recipient of the Texas Tech University President's Excellence in Diversity & Equity award in 2014 and was the only graduate student to have received the award, which was granted based on outstanding activities and projects that contribute to a better understanding of equity and diversity issues within Engineering Education. Computational Pedagogy: Fostering a New Method of Teaching AbstractTeaching with technology still remains as a challenge. Making judicious choices of when, what and how specific tools and pedagogies to use in the teaching of a topic can be improved with the help of curriculum inventories, training, and practices but as new and more capable technologies arrive, such resources and experience do not often transfer to new circumstances. This article presents a case study in which computational modeling and simulation technology (CMST) is used to improve technological pedagogical content knowledge (TPACK) of teachers. We report findings of a summer training program for both preservice and in-service teachers in the Northeastern United States. CMST has shown to be effect...

An experimental study was performed to investigate the influence of molecular diffusion on turbulent entrainment during penetrative convection. The entrainment coefficient E was determined as a function of the Richardson number Ri and Peclet number Pe. It appears that, in parameter ranges 65<Ri<150 and 103<Pe<104, E is a function of Ri, independent of Pe, which indicates inertial-buoyancy dominated mixing and the unimportance of molecular diffusive effects. At high interfacial stabilities, 30<Ri<300, the entrainment law was found to be given by E∼Ri−1.

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In this paper, a general-purpose block LU preconditioner for saddle point problems is presented. The main difference between the approach presented here and that of other studies is that an explicit, accurate approximation of the Schur complement matrix is efficiently computed. This is used to compute a preconditioner to the Schur complement matrix, which in turn defines a preconditioner for the global system. A number of different variants are developed and results are reported for a few linear systems arising from CFD applications.