Enhancement of Computational Engineering within an Undergraduate Mechanical Engineering Curriculum

工程-其他（59）我们的项目解决了1998年博耶委员会报告中强调的研究型大学本科教育问题。我们的目标是将信息技术的进步纳入课程，并与国家科学基金会最近对信息技术应用领域的重视相一致。这已经通过开发一个选项来实现部门的本科机械工程学位在计算工程领域。我们与密西西比州立大学工程研究中心的教师合作，将他们的计算工程本科辅修课程调整为我们的犹他州州立大学课程。我们还建立了一个由5台服务器和20个计算节点组成的PC Beowulf集群，以支持计算工程选项。这将通过采用肯塔基州大学开发的集群设计过程来实现。本科生通过为期一周的研讨会接触到集群设计和编程模型，研讨会将每年举办一次。我们努力的结果将通过全国ASEE会议和通过在工程教育杂志上发表来传播。此外，分组讲习班的材料将通过新闻部的网站提供。

Engineering - Other (59)Our project addresses issues in undergraduate education at research universities highlighted in the 1998 Boyer Commission Report. Our aim is to incorporate advances in information technology into the curriculum, and is consistent with recent increased emphasis in the applied areas of information technology by the National Science Foundation. This has been accomplished by developing an option to the department's undergraduate Mechanical Engineering degree in the area of Computational Engineering. We have worked with faculty from the Engineering Research Center at Mississippi State University to adapt the curricula from their undergraduate minor in Computational Engineering to our Utah State University program. We have also built a PC Beowulf cluster consisting of 5 server and 20 compute nodes to support the Computational Engineering option. This will be accomplished by adopting a cluster design process developed at the University of Kentucky. Undergraduate students are being exposed to cluster designs and programming models through a week long seminar, which will be offered on a yearly basis. Results of our efforts will be disseminated through the national ASEE conference and through publication in an engineering education journal. In addition, materials from the cluster workshop will be made available through our Department's website.