CPATH EAE: Extending a Bottom-Up Education Model to Support Concurrency from the First Year

ABSTRACTCNS-07222212PI：Vijay Pai机构：普渡大学标题：CPATH EAE：从第一年开始扩展自下而上的模型以支持并发性这个CPATH项目建立了一个社区，涉及从第一年开始在整个本科计算课程中集成并发性和并行性主题。这是通过强调硬件固有的空间并发性和让学生考虑并行性设计来实现的。在入门课程之后，后续课程将进行调整，以便在适用的情况下包括并行的基本概念。它包括开发教育工具，帮助学生设计并行程序，并向更广泛的社区传播材料。一组可能的采用者，包括中西部的主要研究机构，在三年的资助期间参加了研讨会和其他社区活动。该项目的智力价值在于该主题的重要性和时效性，以及显然需要计算机教育中的这种变化，以培养下一代计算机专业人员。该项目团队包括在作为实施基础的计算学科研究和教育创新方面拥有丰富专业知识的研究人员。该项目有可能对全国产生影响，并为未来的计算机教育提供新的模式。该项目的更广泛影响在于，有可能满足对计算机专业人员不断变化的需求，并吸引不同的学生受众。主要影响在于应当证明该模式的有效性并支持在国家一级传播的合理评估。该项目有可能提供以研究为基础的国家资源，振兴本科生为软件开发专业职业生涯做准备。

ABSTRACTCNS-07222212PI: Vijay PaiInstitution: Purdue UniversityTitle: CPATH EAE: Extending a Bottom-Up Model to Support Concurrency from the First Year This CPATH project builds a community involved in integrating concurrency and parallelism topics throughout the undergraduate computing curriculum starting in the first year. This is achieved by emphasizing the spatial concurrency inherent in hardware and having students consider designs with parallelism. After the introductory courses, follow-on courses will be adapted to include fundamental concepts of parallelism wherever applicable. It includes the development of educational tools to assist students in designing parallel programs and the dissemination of materials to broader communities. A group of possible adoptors including major research institutions in the mid-west participates in workshops and other community activities during the three years of funding.The intellectual merit of the project lies in the importance and currency of the topic and clear need for such changes in computing education to prepare the upcoming generation of computing professionals. The project team includes researchers with significant expertise in both the computing discipline research that underlies the implementation and in educational innovation. The project has the potential for national impact and to provide new models for computing education of the future.The broader impacts of the project lie in the potential to address changing demands on computing professionals and to attract a diverse audience of students. The chief impacts lie in the sound evaluation that should demonstrate the effectiveness of the model and support the dissemination on a national level. The project has the potential to provide a research-based national resource that revitalizes the preparation of undergraduates for software development professional careers.