Collaborative Research: CyberTraining: CDL: Preparing Instructors to Offer Experimental Courses in an Updated PDC Curriculum, and Broadening Participation

协作研究：网络培训：CDL：准备教师在更新的 PDC 课程中提供实验课程，并扩大参与范围

• 批准号: 1730527
• 负责人: Charles Weems
• 金额: $ 36.73万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1730527&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CyberTraining; CDL; Preparing

This effort will develop a cadre of college faculty to pioneer a shift in the computer science curriculum to ensure students are educated in the use of 21st century platforms that pervasively incorporate parallel and distributed computing (PDC). Twentieth century computers were mostly built on the principle of a single processor, executing a sequence of operations. That model is tightly bound into curricula, even though the last decade has seen widespread deployment of multi-core processors, graphics processors, online servers, and the internet of things, all of which depend on the much different PDC mindset for problem solving and programming. Financial, technical, scientific, engineering and medical companies, government laboratories, the department of defense, the intelligence community, and many other sectors are desperately seeking employees who can exploit PDC systems, because the existing workforce was heavily steeped in the older sequential model. Even new graduates continue to learn the old approach because of the considerable inertia in the educational system. Thus, by turning the tide toward incorporation of PDC into the early stages of computer science education, through teaching the teachers, this project will strategically serve the national interest, as stated by NSF's mission: to promote the progress of science; to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare; and to secure the national defense. It will be a significant step toward modernizing the emerging workforce to have the computing skills needed for the United States to maintain leadership in all of these areas.The Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER) with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, developed curriculum guidelines for parallel and distributed computing (PDC) that guided PDC aspects of the ACM Computer Science Curricula 2013. The guideline sought to shift courses in the first two years from the sequential model toward the PDC paradigm. In the modern world, students must see PDC as an aspect of computational problem solving from the very beginning. This project will update the curriculum guideline, with special foci on big data, energy, distributed computing, and exemplars. It will offer grants (encouraging participation by institutions serving underrepresented groups) for faculty to work on course development and attend a workshop where they will be trained in the use of PDC, and in experimental course design and evaluation. The workshops, offered each summer of the grant period, will also support attendance by industrial and government stakeholders to help build a network of relationships. Additional instructors will be offered travel support to attend the workshops, beyond the course development grants.

这一努力将开发一批大学教师先锋计算机科学课程的转变,确保学生在使用21世纪的教育平台,普遍将并行和分布式计算(PDC)。20世纪的计算机大多建立在单处理器的原理上，执行一系列的操作。尽管在过去的十年中，多核处理器、图形处理器、在线服务器和物联网已经得到了广泛的应用，但这些都依赖于PDC在解决问题和编程方面的不同思维方式，这种模式与课程紧密相连。金融、技术、科学、工程和医疗公司、政府实验室、国防部、情报界和许多其他部门都在拼命寻找能够利用PDC系统的员工，因为现有的劳动力严重沉浸在旧的顺序模型中。由于教育系统的惯性，即使是刚毕业的学生也继续学习旧的方法。因此，通过将PDC纳入计算机科学教育的早期阶段，通过对教师的教学，该项目将战略性地服务于国家利益，正如NSF的使命所述：促进科学进步；促进国家健康、繁荣和福利；并确保国防安全。这将是使新兴劳动力现代化的重要一步，使他们拥有美国在所有这些领域保持领导地位所需的计算技能。并行和分布式计算课程开发和教育资源中心（CDER）与IEEE计算机学会并行处理技术委员会共同制定了并行和分布式计算（PDC）课程指南，指导ACM计算机科学课程2013的PDC方面。该指南试图在头两年将课程从顺序模型转向PDC范式。在现代世界中，学生必须从一开始就将PDC视为计算问题解决的一个方面。该项目将更新课程指南，特别关注大数据、能源、分布式计算和范例。它将提供赠款（鼓励服务于代表性不足群体的机构参与），供教师从事课程开发工作，并参加一个讲习班，在那里他们将接受使用PDC以及实验性课程设计和评价方面的培训。赠款期间每年夏季提供的讲习班还将支持工业和政府利益相关者参加，以帮助建立关系网络。除了课程开发补助金外，还将为参加研讨会的其他教师提供旅费支持。