Educating the Next Generation of Information Specialists, in Collaboration with Industry

9455450穆德这项工作产生了非常需要和重大修订（或完全改造）的计算机信息科学（CIS）为导向的课程。具体来说，它提供了详细的课程指南，支持实验室材料，原始的学习/教学模式，以及处理复杂信息系统的方法。计算科学的这一主要组成部分被从业者、教育工作者和专业团体忽视了至少15年。在同一时期，对支持商业、工业和政府各个方面的复杂、大型粮食信息系统的需求急剧增长;同样，支持信息生成和使用的技术也发生了巨大变化。这导致了我们目前的困境：令人兴奋的新信息技术的可用性被应用，但很少（新员工或从业者），如果有的话，适当地准备有效地应用这些进步。这一企业/行业合作提案解决了这一困境，并将产生解决方案。 这项工作建立在什么是今天在独联体，增加了大量的新课程和实验室材料，用于处理大粮食信息系统的复杂性，发展团队合作和沟通技能的学生的方法，并将嵌入解决问题和设计技能的建议课程。为了支持这一课程，适当的材料开发和测试在选定的大学/工业测试点。一个新的学习/教学模式（即，Just in Time Learning）的开发和测试，其中合格的学生（由教师指导）与正在进行的行业大粒度信息系统项目进行电子链接。有参与项目团队成员，接收项目经验和及时的课堂/实验室经验。波音公司和摩托罗拉公司致力于支持这种原始的学习/教学模式。 除了PI和Co-PI每年投入该项目的2个半月外，还有一个由10名精心挑选的专业人员（5名来自行业，5名来自企业）组成的团队积极参与该项目。三位杰出的独联体专家将组成国家访问委员会，对该项目进行评论和指导，另外50多位外部专家将审查该项目的结果。通过这种方式，项目成果的质量和适用性得到了保证。将广泛和及时地向计算机专业人员传播。

9455450 Mulder This work produces a greatly needed and major revision (or complete revamping) of Computer Information Science (CIS) oriented curricula. Specifically it provides detailed curriculum guidelines, supporting laboratory material, original learning/teaching paradigms, and a methodology for dealing with complex information systems. This major component of the Computing Sciences has been overlooked by practitioners, educators, and the professional societies for at least fifteen years. During this same period the need for complex, large grain information systems to support all aspects of business, industry, and government has exploded; similarly, the technologies supporting the generation and usage of information have changed dramatically. This has led to our current dilemma: the availability of exciting new information technologies to be applied, BUT few (new hires or practitioners), if any, properly prepared to effectively apply these advances. This academe/industry collaborative proposal addresses this dilemma, and will produce solutions. This work builds on what is available today in CIS, adding to it substantial new course and laboratory material, a methodology for dealing with large grain information system complexity, development of teamwork and communications skills in students, and will embed problem solving and design skills within the recommended curriculum. To support this curriculum, appropriate materials are developed and tested at selected university/industry test sites. A new learning/teaching paradigm (ie., Just in Time Learning) is developed and tested, in which qualified students (guided by a faculty member) is electronically linked with an ongoing industry large grained information systems project. There are participating project team members, receiving both project experiences and just in time classroom/laboratory experiences. The Boeing Company and Motorola are committed to supporting this original learning/teaching paradigm. In add ition to the 2 1/2 months per year that the PI and Co-PI devote to this project, a team of ten (10) carefully selected professionals (5 from industry and 5 from academe) are heavily involved in the project. Three eminent CIS specialists will form the National Visiting Committee to critique and guide the project, and 50+ additional external specialists will review the results of the project. ln this manner, the quality and applicability of project results are assured. Widespread and timely dissemination to the Computing profession will be conducted.