X-Ray Diffraction: A Common Interdisciplinary Experience forGeology, Chemistry, and Physics Students

这个项目的目的是建立一个能够支持计算科学本科课程的实验室。许多自然科学和社会科学专业的学生在完成本科学业时，没有将先进的计算工具和技术应用于各自学科问题的经验。这个项目的目标是在数学系内创建一个跨学科的课程，为这些学生提供所需的背景和经验。它扩展和阐明了现有的课程在数值方法，大规模数据分析和可视化技术，因为它创建了一个专门为这些学生设计的课程。这一计划可以培养一批数学熟练的学生，他们可以将可视化和计算技术的知识应用于自然科学和社会科学中的问题，特别是地质学、生物学、化学、物理学、经济学、地理学和心理学。这个项目的所有学生都需要完成他们感兴趣领域的一个主要计算项目。这些项目可以向公众开放。教职员工还可以与其他学院和大学分享他们在实施此类项目方面的经验，特别是与中西部联合学院和五大湖学院协会的类似机构，该学院与这些机构有密切合作的记录。

The purpose of this project is to establish a laboratory capable of supporting an undergraduate program in Computational Science. A large number of students in the natural and social sciences complete their undergraduate career without experience in the application of advanced computational tools and techniques to the problems of their respective disciplines. The objective of this project is to create an interdisciplinary program within the Mathematics Department that gives these students the needed background and experience. It expands and articulates existing courses in numerical methods, large-scale data analysis, and visualization techniques as it creates a program specifically designed for these students. This program can create a group of mathematically sophisticated students who can apply their knowledge of visualization and computation techniques to problems in the natural and social sciences, especially geology, biology, chemistry, physics, economics, geography, and psychology. All students in this program are required to complete a major computational project in their area of interest. These projects can be made publicly available. Faculty members can also share what they have learned about implementing such a program with other colleges and universities, especially with those similar institutions in the Associated Colleges of the Midwest and the Great Lakes Colleges Association with which the college has a record of close cooperation.