CI-Team: Leveraging Cyberinfrastructure to Scale-Up a Computational Science Undergraduate Curriculum

该项目将鼓励更广泛的教师和学生使用网络基础设施，为改进中间件和网格计算应用程序做出贡献，使它们能够被更广泛的受众使用，增加本科学生的课程选择，促进少数民族和传统学生的劳动力发展，以满足美国商业、工业和教育日益增长的需求。来自俄亥俄州超级计算机中心、首都大学和俄亥俄州学习网络的主要研究人员将与俄亥俄州校务委员会和俄亥俄州八所学院和大学的教师合作，通过机构间计算科学本科教育和研究计划，将网络基础设施注入更广泛的机构。具体而言，该项目将：1)将网络基础设施（即中间件，高性能计算，网络，大容量存储和可视化工具和资源）整合到计算科学课程中；2)利用现有的网络基础设施开发可共享的教育材料（模块）；3)制定一套模型计算科学本科课程的指导方针；4)制定机构间合作的指导方针（如学费分担、学分授予等）；5)增加计算科学教育学生的多样性。结果还将包括课程指南和机构间协议，以在社区学院、本科文科和综合学院、少数民族服务机构和研究型大学宣传计算科学学科。该项目将为来自不同背景的不同群体的学生提供教育效益，并将纳入认真的评估和评估部分，以帮助了解如何将该活动广泛扩展到俄亥俄州以外的地方，并在K-20教育管道中进入进一步的教育领域。该项目还将包括外部工业顾问，以确保课程和教育培训与现代劳动力的相关性。

This project will encourage the use of the cyberinfrastructure by a wide range of faculty and students, make contributions to improve middleware and grid computing applications so that they can be used by that wider audience, enhance the curricular choices for undergraduate students, and promote the development of a workforce of both minority and traditional students to serve the increasing needs of US business, industry, and education.Working with the Ohio Board of Regents and the faculty at eight Ohio colleges and universities, the Principal Investigators from the Ohio Supercomputer Center, Capital University, and the Ohio Learning Network will infuse cyberinfrastructure into a broader spectrum of institutions through an inter-institutional computational science undergraduate education and research program.Specifically this project will: 1) integrate the cyberinfrastructure (i.e., middleware, high performance computing, networking, mass storage and visualization tools and resources) into the computational science curriculum; 2) develop sharable educational materials (modules) deploying existing cyberinfrastructure; 3) develop a set of guidelines for a model computational science undergraduate program; 4) develop guidelines for inter-institutional cooperation (i.e., tuition sharing, awarding credits etc); 5) increase the diversity of students in computational science education.The outcomes will also include curriculum guidelines and inter-institutional agreements to propagate the computational science discipline at community colleges, undergraduate liberal arts and comprehensive colleges, minority serving institutions, and Research I universities. This project will provide educational benefits to a diverse group of students from a variety of backgrounds and will incorporate a serious evaluation and assessment component to help understand how to scale this activity widely beyond Ohio and into further educational areas in the in the K-20 educational pipeline. The project will also incorporate external industrial advisors to assure relevance of the curriculum and education training for the modern workforce.