Help the DOFPro Team Out

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Please go to dofpro.org/help If you have not already done so.

TL;DR

We need help recording brief (2 minute) intrviews for the DOFPro videos. If you are willing to help, go to https://bit.ly/4azDiaO and sign up.

About Professor Spjut:

  • Is currently the Union Oil Design Fellowship Professor in the Engineering Department at HMC.
  • Was the John Chipmann Assistant Professor of Chemical and Process Metallurgy in the Materials Science and Engineering at M.I.T.
  • Came to HMC in June 1988
  • Former Leadership Positions in the Department and at Mudd
    • Engineering Clinic Director
      • Helped design and pushed for funding for the current Clinic Team and Makerspaces
    • Director of Engineering Computing Facility
    • Faculty Director of Machine Shop
    • Chair of Scholarly Standing Committee
    • Chair of Faculty Safety Committee
  • Educational Innovations at Mudd
    • Taught every required Engineering class except for E83 and E84 (needed for other things)
    • Codeveloped the Rocket version of E80 (most current E80 experiemnts and the field experience can be traced back to Rocket E80)
    • Pioneered modern pedagogy methods (seminar style, flipped, group discussions, student-led discussions, etc.) in Engineering
    • Codeveloped E79
  • Other Contributions
    • Developed first Engineering Department website
    • Chaired search committees that brought us:
      • Nancy Lape
      • Drew Price
      • Lynn Kim
    • Oldest son, Josef, was a visiting professor in Digital for 3 years.
    • 2nd son, Jakob, was head proctor at South Dorm
    • Pushed really hard for a College Makerspace

We Need Interviewees!

Research has shown that students learn best from educational videos when teh videos contain similar students wrestling with the video topics. We need you to be interviewees.

Here is the (sample video with interviews).

Here is the link to volunteer https://bit.ly/4azDiaO.

Here is the Media Release Form).

Here is the current list of interview questions.

More about DOFPro

Chemical and Thermal Processes

You can read more about the Chemical and Thermal Processes work here, or go to the current Chemical and Thermal Processes website.

Current Website and Videos

The current version of the DOFPro Chemical and Thermal Processes website is in the early Alpha stage. The final release is scheduled for May 2025, but feel free to look at where we are in the development process. The website link is here.

As we are completing the videos, we are uploading them to YouTube, but leaving them unpublished. We plan on publishing them in May 2025. You are free to look at them now, but they are missing the description with links, the closed captioning, and the card links at the end. The current list of uploaded videos is here.

High Power Rocketry

You can read more about the High Power Rocketry work here, or go to the current High Power Rocketry website.

Current Website and Videos

The current version of the DOFPro High Power Rocketry website is in the early Alpha stage. The final release is scheduled for May 2025, but feel free to look at where we are in the development process. The website link is here.

Development Tools

We are attempting to use open-source tools to the extent possible for the development process. Our chosen web development platform is Quarto. The chosen open-source tools are:

with the possibility of other packages to be added.

If you would like to join the DOFPro team, please submit two samples of your work, chosen from the List of Samples page to comments@dofpro.org and include “Samples” in your subject line. Please provide information about what two samples you have chosen and why you chose them.