Teaching Computational Science in an Undergraduate Liberal Arts Environment

在本科文科环境中教授计算科学

• 批准号: 9751309
• 负责人: G. Michael Schneider
• 金额: $ 3.94万
• 依托单位: Macalester College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-01 至 1999-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9751309&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Teaching; Computational; Science; Undergraduate; Liberal

This project is establishing a laboratory capable of supporting an undergraduate specialization in computational science. Computational modeling is rapidly becoming an important scientific research technique. However, a large number of students in the physical, natural, and social sciences are completing their undergraduate training without any experience in applying computational tools and modeling techniques to problems in their own discipline. The focus of this project is the new course sequence within the Mathematics and Computer Science Department that is giving students the needed background and experience. These new courses are introducing the core concepts of computational science, including procedural and non-procedural programming, modeling, scientific visualization, numerical libraries and toolkits, and parallel algorithms and architectures. Students are using these concepts to solve large-scale problems drawn from their own scientific field.

该项目正在建立一个能够支持计算科学本科专业化的实验室。 计算建模正迅速成为一种重要的科学研究技术。 然而，大量的学生在物理，自然和社会科学正在完成他们的本科培训没有任何经验，在应用计算工具和建模技术的问题，在自己的纪律。 该项目的重点是数学和计算机科学系的新课程序列，为学生提供所需的背景和经验。 这些新课程介绍了计算科学的核心概念，包括程序化和非程序化编程、建模、科学可视化、数值库和工具包以及并行算法和架构。 学生们正在使用这些概念来解决从自己的科学领域得出的大规模问题。