Improvement of Computing Facilities for Undergraduate Education in the Marine Sciences

海洋科学本科教育计算设施的改进

• 批准号: 9851243
• 负责人: Kathryn Van Alstyne
• 金额: $ 2.98万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-05-01 至 2000-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9851243&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Improvement; Computing; Facilities; Undergraduate; Education

Western Washington University (WWU), with support from NSF, serves a broad undergraduate audience through the Shannon Point Marine Center (SPMC) and its marine science curriculum. At present, this includes 1) WWU science majors who may pursue graduate education; 2) community college students who are assessing their interest in pursuing marine science as a major; and 3) advanced undergraduates participating in SPMC National undergraduate Marine Education Center (NUMEC) programs. NUMEC allows students from around the United States to study at a marine center within the context of their on-going undergraduate programs at their home institutions. All of our programs provide undergraduates with unique opportunities to become educated in the most recent concepts in marine science, to be trained in state-of-the-art techniques used in marine research, and to engage in supervised, independent research. A critical component of this training absent at SPMC is instruction in the use of sophisticated data analysis and presentation techniques. We are requesting funding for computer equipment needed to establish a local area network (LAN) at SPMC that would be linked to mainframe computers at WWU. We are also requesting 6 new personal computers dedicated to student use that would allow us to incorporate training in state-of-the-art data analysis and presentation techniques in our NUMEC programs. The new computer network also would facilitate communications between remotely located students and faculty and allow SPMC to produce and use World Wide Web based materials in our teaching and for community outreach projects.

西华盛顿大学（WWU）在NSF的支持下，通过香农角海洋中心（SPMC）及其海洋科学课程为广大本科生提供服务。目前，这包括1）WWU科学专业谁可以追求研究生教育; 2）社区学院的学生谁正在评估他们在追求海洋科学作为一个主要的兴趣;和3）先进的本科生参加SPMC国家本科海洋教育中心（NUMEC）计划。NUMEC允许来自美国各地的学生在其所在机构正在进行的本科课程的背景下在海洋中心学习。 我们所有的课程都为本科生提供了独特的机会，让他们接受海洋科学最新概念的教育，接受海洋研究中使用的最先进技术的培训，并从事监督，独立的研究。SPMC缺乏这种培训的一个关键组成部分是使用复杂的数据分析和演示技术的指导。我们要求提供资金，以购买在SPMC建立局域网所需的计算机设备，该局域网将与WWU的大型计算机相连。我们还要求6台新的个人电脑专门供学生使用，这将使我们能够在NUMEC计划中纳入最先进的数据分析和演示技术的培训。新的计算机网络还将促进远程学生和教师之间的通信，并允许SPMC在我们的教学和社区外展项目中制作和使用基于万维网的材料。