National Computational Science Institute

跨学科(99)这个项目建立在成功的地区肖多尔计算科学研究所(SCSI)的基础上，创建了一个国家计算科学研究所(NCSI)。NCSI每年提供1000多名本科教师，为期三年，提供一套成熟的模块，包括面对面、视频会议和网络访问的研讨会、研讨会和支持活动，以介绍计算科学、数值模型和数据可视化工具在本科课程中的实际使用。该项目代表着与先进计算基础设施教育、推广和培训伙伴关系、国家计算科学教育联盟、Burroughs Wellcome基金会以及二十多家本科机构、高性能计算中心和供应商的合作伙伴关系。NCSI的目标受众是来自以本科为主的机构、少数族裔服务机构和社区大学的教师团队，他们的学生要么是下一代科学家和工程师，要么是下一代K-12教师，或者两者兼而有之。然后，NCSI的参与者帮助他们自己校园和邻近机构的其他教员在他们自己的课堂上介绍计算科学。NCSI的主要工作是通过三个协同但不同的努力来完成的，这三个努力可以建模为拉、推和渗透。地区性分布的研讨会将教师吸引到合理的旅行距离内，进行一周密集的跨学科培训、协作和计算科学课程开发。参与者探索在现有课程中使用建模和可视化工具，同时刺激新课程的创建和促进本科生研究的新模式。NCSI的工作人员和参与者通过提供研讨会、进行教程、提交论文和海报以及在方案委员会任职，积极推动计算科学教育进入专业和学科特定学会的许多年度会议的议程。为了保持这些努力，NCSI渗透到正在进行的和拟议的本科课程努力中，提供跨学科和学科特定的在线课程，以加强师资队伍，并利用Shodor屡获殊荣的计算科学教育参考台，提供用于互动探索的资源，包括课程、基于问题的建模模块、工具和教程。

Interdisciplinary (99)This project builds upon the successful regional Shodor Computational Science Institute(SCSI) to create a National Computational Science Institute (NCSI). Reaching more than1000 undergraduate faculty per year for three years, NCSI offers a proven, modular setof in-person, video-conferenced, and web-accessible workshops, seminars, and supportactivities to introduce the hands-on use of computational science, numerical models anddata visualization tools across the undergraduate curriculum. This project represents a partnership with the Education, Outreach and Training Partnership for AdvancedComputational Infrastructure, the National Computational Science Education Consortium,the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and more than two dozen undergraduate institutions, highperformance computing centers and vendors. The target audience for NCSI is teams of faculty from predominantly undergraduateinstitutions, minority serving institutions, and community colleges whose students areeither the next generation of scientists and engineers, the next generation of K-12 teachers,or both. NCSI participants then assist other faculty on their own campuses and at neighboringinstitutions to introduce computational science in their own classes. The main work of NCSI is accomplished through three synergistic but distinct efforts thatcan be modeled as PULL, PUSH, and PERMEATE. Regionally distributed workshops PULL faculty within a reasonable travel distance for a week of intense interdisciplinary training,collaboration, and curriculum development in computational science. Participants explorethe use of modeling and visualization tools in existing courses, while stimulating creationof new courses and promoting new modes of undergraduate research. NCSI staff andparticipants proactively PUSH computational science education onto the agendas ofnumerous annual meetings of professional and discipline-specific societies, by offeringworkshops, conducting tutorials, presenting papers and posters, and serving on programcommittees. To sustain these efforts, NCSI PERMEATEs on-going and proposedundergraduate curriculum efforts providing interdisciplinary and discipline specificweb-accessible courses for faculty enhancement, and resources for interactive explorationincluding curriculum, problem-based modeling modules, tools, and tutorials, leveragingShodor's award-winning Computational Science Education Reference Desk.