The College Park Conference on Undergraduate Physics Education: The Changing Role of the Physics Department in Modern Universities; College Park, MD, July 31 - August 3

物理本科教育国际会议将于1996年7月31日至8月3日在马里兰州大学帕克分校举行。 这次会议是由马里兰州大学、美国物理教师协会、美国物理学会和美国物理研究所主办的，它将集中讨论物理教育在当代大学中不断变化的作用。 会议的主要议题是：（1）物理学学士学位作为进入工作场所的通行证;（2）物理学为其他科学和工程专业的学生服务;（3）物理系在教师职前和在职教育中的责任。 基本主题是（1）当代学生不断变化的目标;（2）教育研究的结果;（4）技术在教育过程中的作用;（4）公平教育所有学生的挑战。 会议由国际顾问委员会指导，该委员会将制定计划和发言人名单，并将包括解决问题的全体会议，海报会议和样本课程，展示当今世界上最具创新性和令人兴奋的新大学物理课程。 结果将作为摘要和建议发表。 其结果将是更好地了解世界各地最好的物理教育，以及一组约400名参与者，他们亲眼目睹和经历了这些发展，并可以使用和借鉴它们。

The International Conference on Physics Undergraduate Education will be held from July 31 to August 3, 1996, at the University of Maryland, College Park. The conference is sponsored by the University of Maryland, the American Association of Physics Teachers, the American Physical Society, and the American Institute of Physics, and it will concentrate on the changing role of physics education in the contemporary university. Major issues of the conference are (1) The physics baccalaureate as a passport to the workplace; (2) Physics in the service of students in other sciences and engineering; (3) The physics department's responsibility in pre- and in-service education of teachers. Underlying themes are the (1) changing goals for contemporary students; (2) results of educational research; (4) role of technology in the educational process; (4) challenge to educate all students equitably. The conference is directed by an International Advisory Board who will develop the program and speakers list, and will consist of plenary sessions addressing the issues, poster sessions, and sample classes demonstrating the most innovative and exciting new university physics classes being developed in the world today. The results will be published as a summary and recommendations. The outcome will be a better understanding of the best of physics education throughout the world and a group of about 400 participants who have seen and experienced these developments first hand and can use and build on them.