A Virtual Reality and Scientific Visualization Laboratory for Undergraduates in Computer Science

该项目为计算机科学本科生的虚拟现实和科学可视化领域的本科生仪器设备的重点投资提供资金。在计算机科学以及科学的本科生和研究生项目中，许多项目都是围绕合作科学项目和结果的可视化进行的。其中许多项目使用模拟和虚拟现实来模拟虚拟环境，以帮助可视化科学实验。当今科学界有如此多的活动由合作项目组成，其中包括计算机科学家，而且需要计算机科学家，因此在这个时候，合乎逻辑的一步是建立一个专门的实验室，让本科生接触虚拟现实、虚拟世界建模和科学可视化等软件技术。虚拟现实和科学可视化是由高性能的三维计算机图形组成，用于科学建模和模拟，用于自然科学和物理科学的培训和实验。这个项目允许更大的图形计算能力、灵活性和更高的效率，这将导致提高教师/学生团队的生产力。这个项目也可能为计算机科学与生物、物理、化学和气象学专业之间的合作学生项目提供一个跳板。许多理科学生以及计算机科学专业的学生可以从这个项目中受益匪浅，让他们有机会在本科阶段从事高性能的计算机模拟和可视化技术。这个项目的主要目标之一是提高学生对从事更多学术活动的兴趣，如学生出版物、继续读研究生和在科研机构就业。这个为虚拟环境开发软件的实验实验室可能会引起其他机构的潜在兴趣，并可能导致计算机科学实验室教学中新的实验和方法的发展。

This project provides funds for focused investment in instrumentation for undergraduate study in the area of Virtual Reality and Scientific Visualization for undergraduates in Computer Science. A great deal of projects being performed in computer science and in undergraduate and graduate programs in the sciences center around collaborative scientific projects and the visualization of the results. Many of these projects use simulation and virtual reality to model virtual environments to help visualize scientific experiments. With so much activity in the scientific community today composed of collaborative projects that include and require computer scientists, a logical step at this time is to build a specialized laboratory and expose undergraduate students to the software techniques of virtual reality, virtual world modeling, and scientific visualization. Virtual reality and scientific visualization is composed of high-performance three-dimensional computer graphics for scientific modeling and simulations for training and experimentation in the natural and physical sciences. This project allows for greater graphical computational power, flexibility, and more efficiency, which will lead to increased productivity of faculty/student teams. This project may also provide a springboard for collaborative student projects between Computer Science and Biology, Physics, Chemistry, and Meteorology majors. Many science students, as well as computer science students, can greatly benefit from this project, giving them opportunities to engage in high-performance computer simulations and visualization techniques at the undergraduate level. One of the primary objectives of this project is to boost student interest in pursuing more scholarly activities such as student publications, going on to graduate school, and seeking employment in scientific research-oriented institutions. This laboratory for experimentation in developing software for virtual environments may be of potential interest to other institutions and may lead to the development of new experiments and approaches in laboratory instruction in computer science.