New Course Offering – Graduate Student Services Office (GSSO)

Please take note of two new courses being offered this fall:

EAS 4205/6325 Geomorphology will be offered as a 4 credit course (with lab), and

EAS 8001-GEO Surface Processes Seminar will be a 1 credit reading seminar

Details below:

EAS 4205/6325 Geomorphology: This course is a quantitative overview of the processes shaping Earth and other planetary surfaces, predictive models of landscape evolution and modern methods for measuring landscape change over modern and geologic timescales. The course is designed for both undergraduate and graduate students, and includes field trips, Matlab-based computational labs as well as hands-on outdoor labs. Topics include: tectonic geomorphology, alluvial and bedrock river dynamics, glacial erosion and deposition, weathering and hillslope processes, applications of surveying and radiometric dating to measuring rates of landscape change.

EAS 8001-GEO Surface Processes Seminar: This is a graduate level reading seminar (but interested undergrads are encouraged to join and can be admitted upon request) designed to complement EAS 4205/6325 or active research in Earth and other planetary surface processes. We will be joined in weekly meetings by colleagues at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez and University of Colorado, Boulder. Students will have the chance to lead a discussion with a senior instructor on a topical paper in their area of research interest.

Please feel free to reach out to the instructor, Dr. Karl Lang, with any questions: karl.lang@eas.gatech.edu.

CEE 8823: Arts and Geometry

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CEE8823_Arts_Geometry_Syllabus_FALL2022

The syllabus is in attachment and a brief course description is given below. Send an email to Dr. Fedele (fedele@gatech.edu) if you are interested in taking the course or if you have questions.

COURSE DESCRIPTION

We will introduce students to the geometry of space and manifolds and how these concepts influenced modern arts and sciences, i.e. Cubism and Einstein’s relativity. The realization of geometry is visualization. The course is integrated with weekly lab sessions taught by the Atlanta-based professional artist Rachel Grant, who will teach students fundamentals of several art mediums: pencil and charcoal drawing, oil painting, photography, three-dimensional (3D) sculptures and brainwave art using EEG technology. Students will draw/sketch by hand to stimulate/enhance their visual memory, imagination, and practice abstraction of geometric concepts. Special focus is put on both exact representation (Renaissance art) and geometric abstraction (cubism, modern Art). Students’ artwork will be exhibited in the Georgia Tech Ferst Center of the Arts.

YOUTUBE VIDEOS AND ART MAGAZINES ABOUT THE COURSE

Fall 2018 “Like Picasso and EInstein” magazine

Fall2019 “Forms and Expression” magazine

Fall 2019 Students art Exhibit (YOUTUBE video)

Form and Expression: Artistic lines from Analytical minds

Fall 2021 Students art Exhibit (YOUTUBE video)

“Expressions of Analytical Minds”

CEE 8823 Special topics course “ARTS & GEOMETRY”

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The syllabus is here: CEE8823_Arts_Geometry_Syllabus_FALL2022

A brief course description is given below. Send an email to Dr. Fedele (fedele@gatech.edu) if you are interested in taking the course or if you have questions.