Abstract:

An ever-advancing technology society should pay special attention to scientific and technological skills - scientific literacy - that young engineers and scientists need for their professional insertion and career development. Young generation must be educated to think critically and innovatively in order to solve day by day but also technological problems. Theirs must be driven by advances in Science and Technologies itself. Teaching and learning strategies, new teaching tools and modern facilities must function as a whole. Future teachers and students must be exposed to the new teaching and learning technologies to be ready to implement in the classroom. In the last years, more and more awareness campaigns inspired educators to introduce into the themes new technologies and nanoscience. In this context, education for and with new technologies is not a fancy question but a necessity for future society. The lecture will demonstrate some instructional approach in the field.

Ovidiu Florin Caltun

CALTUN Ovidiu Florin received his Ph.D. in 1998 at Faculty of Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iasi, Romania defending the thesis “Magnetic and Electrical Properties of Bismuth Doped Manganese Zinc Ferrite”. He was fellow researcher in Taiwan at University of Changhua working in pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of thin ferrite films, DAAD Fellow at Saarland University Germany and Fulbright Scholar at Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo California US working in STEM Education. From 2009 he is full professor at Faculty of Physics, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi, Romania and is leading the Laboratory of Magnetic Materials for Technological Applications LMAT. He has published more than 200 papers in Material Science and Science Education. More than 100 are in ISI journals with a Hirsch index of 24. The main research interests are in nanoparticles for medical applications, thin films for sensors applications and multiferroics. In STEM education, networking at international level, his contribution is highly recognized by published papers in proceedings and invited talks. He was invited for lectures in USA, France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Japan, Chile, Serbia, Albania, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Estonia, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, and Taiwan. Currently he is serving as president of “Alliance of Educators for Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics and Informatics” ESTEEM Romania. He is member of IEEE Magnetics and Education Chapters, GIREP and EPS professional associations.

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